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“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
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“What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary”
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“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
“Even though bitcoin may not, after all, represent the potential for a new gold standard, its underlying technology will unbundle the roles of money. This can finally clarify and enable the necessary distinction between the medium of exchange and the measuring stick. Disaggregated will be all the GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft conglomerates)—the clouds of concentrated computing and commerce.”
― Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
― Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
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