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The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very
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“Everything you see is in the past, as far as you’re concerned. If you look up at the Moon, you’re seeing a little over a second ago. The Sun is more than eight minutes in the past. And the stars you see in the night sky are deep in the past, from just a few years to millennia.”
― The End of Everything [Astrophysically Speaking]
― The End of Everything [Astrophysically Speaking]
“After all, what’s another word for data storage in a computer? Memory. Memory, as in the sense of human memory, and as in the sense of history.”
― The Network State: How To Start a New Country
― The Network State: How To Start a New Country
“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. Leslie Lamport”
― Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
― Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work
“The world is strange, but simple”
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
“What one wins in a finite game is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them—unless, of course, I address myself as an other. The effectiveness of a title depends on its visibility, its noticeability to others.”
― Finite and Infinite Games
― Finite and Infinite Games
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