Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
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Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you read more
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will read more
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to read more
The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.
A satellite has no conscience.
A satellite has no conscience.
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the read more
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the read more
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated read more
In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
