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“Politics,” he would say, “is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives.” And that’s what he tried to do every day he served in
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“Silicon Valley has never been interested in slow and steady growth—an early winning appearance is key to the Palo Alto System.”
― Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
― Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
“The other reason mathematicians were blind to chaos was that they had no computers, and were left with the kind of vague description that Poincaré gave, which other mathematicians failed to understand.”
― The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations
― The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations
“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
“It’s worth noting that IBM’s program, named Watson, had access to 200 million pages of content consuming four terabytes of memory.”
― Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
― Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth & Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“I briefed Trump on what we knew, and he said he might tweet about it. I urged him, if he did so, to rely only on public sources, but as was so often the case, he ignored this warning, tweeting instead: Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong. Everyone should be calm and safe! Many are blaming me, and the United States, for the problems going on in Hong Kong. I can’t imagine why? So much for stopping all those leaks from the “deep state.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
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