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“opening speaker began his remarks by saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, the plane is no longer the problem.”*”
― Stanley McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

“With the growth of the Internet, 24-hour television, and mobile phones, we now receive five times as much information every day as we did in 1986.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload

“from a subjective perspective, the sow still feels very strong urges to do all of these things, and if these urges are not fulfilled she suffers greatly. Sows locked in gestation crates typically display acute frustration alternating with extreme despair.15”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Given these failures, in 1962 NASA leadership had doubts about the feasibility of Kennedy’s goal. “Most of us in the Space Task Group thought [Kennedy] was daft,” recalled a NASA executive. “I mean, we didn’t think we could do it. We didn’t refuse to accept the challenge, but God, we didn’t know how to do [Earth] orbit determination, much less project orbits to the Moon.”
― Stanley McChrystal, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World