“A problem cannot be solved on the same level on which it was created,” Einstein once said. What Bill picked up from Einstein was the realization that a release from categorical thinking could lead one to new levels of creativity.
“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called “liberty” and during the Internet Revolution is called “privacy.”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
“It is important to remember that events now long in the past were once in the future.”
― War by Timetable: How the First World War Began
― War by Timetable: How the First World War Began
“I can’t allow myself to tire. I’ve already run off the cliff. I just have to keep remembering not to look down.”
― Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins: Grantchester Mysteries 4
― Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins: Grantchester Mysteries 4
“You won’t get fired if you do something, you will if you don’t do anything. Do something if it is wrong, for you can correct that, but there is no way to correct nothing.”
― The Path Between the Seas
― The Path Between the Seas
“Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
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