Tim McCarthy

“Proficimus more irretenti: “We make progress unhindered by custom.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

“Sapiens rule the world because only they can weave an intersubjective web of meaning:”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“the first ENIAC programmer team was all-female: Kathleen McNulty, Betty Jennings, Elizabeth Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman, known later as the “ENIAC Girls.”
― Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

“The United States uses nearly 21 million barrels of oil a day. That amounts to a staggering 25 percent of total global consumption. Of the oil we use, we import over 65 percent, or 13.5 million barrels, each and every day. That number has risen from 37 percent in the 1970s, at the time of the Arab oil embargo, and 58 percent in 2000.”
― Jay Inslee, Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy