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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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“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“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
“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“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
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