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"Chapter 8.
Getting back into reading this after taking an entire month off, lol..." — Oct 16, 2025 08:41PM
"Chapter 8.
Getting back into reading this after taking an entire month off, lol..." — Oct 16, 2025 08:41PM
“Paul Davies noted in Nature, it is “almost impossible for the non-scientist to discriminate between the legitimately weird and the outright crackpot.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“In a perfect hacker world, anyone pissed off enough to open up a control box near a traffic light and take it apart to make it work better should be perfectly welcome to make the attempt…”
― Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2
― Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2
“Scientists dealt with this paradox in the handiest possible way. They ignored it.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Keep your focus on how to fix the problem, not who to blame. That will come later and is far too distracting early on.”
― Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
― Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
“... if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn’t choose human beings for the job.
But here’s an extremely salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
But here’s an extremely salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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