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Yellowface
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“Athena was dazzling,” I say, and I do mean it. “She was larger than life. Untouchable. Looking at her was like looking at the sun. She was so brilliant that it hurt to stare for too long.”
“He had become fascinated by Fermi’s Paradox, named after the Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi, who in a discussion of alien life in the universe said, “But where is everyone?” Mathematically it seemed logical there were other civilizations, but the lack of any evidence raised the uncomfortable possibility that the Earth’s human species might be the only example of consciousness.”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be,” Vonnegut wrote.”
― Pageboy: A Memoir
― Pageboy: A Memoir
“They agreed to a merger in which X.com would get 55 percent of the combined company, but Musk almost ruined things soon after by telling Levchin he was getting a steal.”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
“For the second time in three years, Musk had been pushed out of a company. He was a visionary who didn’t play well with others.”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
“Levchin and Musk soon clashed on an issue that sounded technical but was also theological: whether to use Microsoft Windows or Unix as the main operating system.”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
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