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Edwin Dalorzo
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Just as Copernicus cast the earth out from the center of the universe, the Darwinian universe displaced humans as the epicenter of the natural world.
“Terrorism is mostly theater. It is a strategy of weakness adopted by those who lack access to real power. During the past decade, terrorists killed every year just a few dozen people in the United States. At the same time, obesity and related illnesses killed tens of thousands of Americans annually. For the average American, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s pose a far deadlier threat than al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“To make matters worse, our customers don’t have a very good understanding of what we do, how we do it, or why we do it—the end result is that they put unrealistic demands on us and don’t give us the support that we need to accomplish their goals.”
― Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process
― Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process
“Por el camino hasta perdimos el derecho de llamarnos americanos, aunque los haitianos y los cubanos ya habían asomado a la historia, como pueblos nuevos, un siglo antes de que los peregrinos del Mayflower se establecieran en las costas de Plymouth. Ahora América es, para el mundo, nada más que los Estados Unidos: nosotros habitamos, a lo sumo, una sub América, una América de segunda clase, de nebulosa identificación.”
― Las venas abiertas de América Latina
― Las venas abiertas de América Latina
“The assurance would be there, he thought, the assurance that life had a special place in the great scheme of existence, that one, no matter how small, how feeble, how insignificant, still did count for something in the vast sweep of space and time.”
― Way Station
― Way Station
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