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It takes a lot of practice to achieve this kind of perfect purity: a lie that has no relationship at all to a truth.
“This is why the naive view is wrong to believe that creating more powerful information technology will necessarily result in a more truthful understanding of the world. If no additional steps are taken to tilt the balance in favor of truth, an increase in the amount and speed of information is likely to swamp the relatively rare and expensive truthful accounts by much more common and cheap types of information.”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“The machine that made pin making automatic, and rendered all the tasks described by Smith obsolete at a stroke (though adding different ones) was a device that a New York machinist created and put into production in a pin factory of his own about fifty years after Smith’s description.”
― The Economy of Cities
― The Economy of Cities
“we can’t read our own label from inside the jar.”
― The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
― The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
“I cannot accept that a theory of prime importance, which describes processes which everybody believes to be elementary, can be right if it is too complicated, i.e., if it describes these elementary processes as being horribly complex and sophisticated ones.”
― Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
― Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
“Visiting his neighbours’ apartments, he would find himself physically repelled by the contours of an award-winning coffee-pot, by the well-modulated colour schemes, by the good taste and intelligence that, Midas-like, had transformed everything in these apartments into an ideal marriage of function and design. In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape.”
― High-Rise
― High-Rise
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