“Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. You know that, Case. Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names . . .”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“A middleman’s business is to make himself a necessary evil.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“much of what other people know isn’t worth knowing.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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