Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C. Clarke
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers - Thomas Watson, President of IBM, 1943
This time next year, this time ten years, this time one hundred years,
probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water,
which now seems so plain and simple.
I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious,
will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes;
that we shall learn to look on things in a different way, when that which is now a
difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject.
- Wiliam Thomsom AKA Lord Kelvin, 1889
Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe - János Bolyai, 1823
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity - Seneca, 4BC
Our culture has become hooked on the quick-fix, the life hack, efficiency.
Everyone is on the hunt for that simple action algorithm that nets maximum profit with the least amount of effort.
There's no denying this attitude may get you some of the trappings of success, if you're lucky,
but it will not lead to a calloused mind or self-mastery. If you want to master the mind and remove your governor,
you'll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools
if you have the work ethic to back them up.
- Dawid Goggins
Only compare yourself to you from some time ago [...] are you better than you a year ago? This is the only way to think. - Andrej Karpathy
The more you know, the less you fear - Chris Hadfield