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“Human achievement is based on collective intelligence—the nodes in the human neural network are people themselves. By each doing one thing and getting good at it, then sharing and combining the results through exchange, people become capable of doing things they do not even understand.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

“the positive Warrior energy destroys only what needs to be destroyed in order for something new and fresh, more alive and more virtuous to appear.”
― Robert L. Moore, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering Masculinity Through the Lens of Archetypal Psychology - A Journey into the Male Psyche and Its Four Essential Aspects

“Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

“the threat to good collective outcomes doesn’t come only from free riders and predators, as mainstream social sciences teach us, but also from well-organized norms of kakonomics, which regulate exchanges for the worse.”
― John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking