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It’s dusk on the island of Aegina. Summertime. We are sitting on our veranda, gazing across the sea at the bright red sun as it sinks behind the Peloponnese Mountains. Just as my dad used to do to me when I was young, I turn to you and
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“The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, that we are no longer even aware of it, having been made oblivious to our reality by the very technologies that rule us.”
― Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
― Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
“Save us from the help of the well-meaning.”
― Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
― Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
“A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.
(DUTCH PROVERB)”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
(DUTCH PROVERB)”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
“Your skills will increase with experience, which is the more fun cousin of practice. Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you’re alive.”
― How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
― How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
“War has also taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow—or force—to dominate our being.”
― Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
― Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
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