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"Radar operators at nuclear facilities are not artists. They are not stoners. They are not conspiracy theorists. They are precision-trained specialists trusted to handle world-ending information with zero room for error.
When they say: “I saw something on radar move at 9,000 mph, stop mid-air, then vanish,” the only honest reply is: “What agency told you not to talk about it?”" — Jul 07, 2025 10:15PM
"Radar operators at nuclear facilities are not artists. They are not stoners. They are not conspiracy theorists. They are precision-trained specialists trusted to handle world-ending information with zero room for error.
When they say: “I saw something on radar move at 9,000 mph, stop mid-air, then vanish,” the only honest reply is: “What agency told you not to talk about it?”" — Jul 07, 2025 10:15PM
“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.”
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“The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -
The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For- hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets - do -
The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -
The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For- hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets - do -
The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
“And he refused to specialize in anything, preferring to keep an eye on the overall estate rather than any of its parts. . . . And Nikolay’s management produced the most brilliant results. —Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
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