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Arthur had discovered that horses make bad sailors.
“The verdict of history seems to be that free-market capitalism is the globally optimal way to cooperate for economic efficiency; perhaps, in a similar way, the reputation-game gift culture is the globally optimal way to cooperate for generating (and checking!) high-quality creative work.”
― The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
― The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“Mind you, Augie knew all about spoilers, but whenever she started talking about the downforce equation, adults stopped the conversation in order to praise her intelligence, which made it all but impossible to speak.”
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“Alas for us, our dreams came true.”
― The Shepherd's Crown
― The Shepherd's Crown
“What I couldn’t fully appreciate yet was just how malleable this technology would prove to be; how quickly it would be absorbed by commercial interests and wielded by entrenched powers; how readily it could be used not to unify people but to distract or divide them; and how one day many of the same tools that had put me in the White House would be deployed in opposition to everything I stood for.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
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