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The traditional assets of plant and equipment were only $3bn, a trifling 4 percent of Microsoft’s assets and 1 percent of its market value. By the conventional accounting of assets then, Microsoft was a modern-day miracle. This was
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“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”
― Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
― Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.”
― Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
― Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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