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The rhythms are tight, but he is not a minimalist; his goal is density; density of substance, density of meaning.
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.”
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“A weed is a plant out of place.”
― The Killer Inside Me
― The Killer Inside Me
“Don’t follow your passion, follow your talent.”
― The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
― The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
“I believe most people are especially repelled by attributes in other people that remind them of things they loathe about themselves.”
― The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
― The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
“Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide. We have to explicitly embed better values into our algorithms, creating Big Data models that follow our ethical lead. Sometimes that will mean putting fairness ahead of profit.”
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
― Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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