— Louis Basenese I don’t think people realize what is happening with technology. We used to think about new technology changing the world every 100 years — the printing press. Maybe every 50 years — the airplane, the automobile. Now we are in a stage of the cycle where new technologies are changing the world …
Month: March 2017
— From Safal Niveshak (link) Hedgehogs survive by just performing one trick (rolling up in a ball), but doing it very, very well. However, it’s the only defence mechanism the hedgehog has, unlike fox. A fox has a number of survival tricks that allows it to evade predators. Inspired by this observation, the Oxford philosopher …
Richard Feynman, the famous scientist and a nobel laureate, said – I can live with doubt and uncertainty. It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, possible beliefs, different degrees of certainty about different things but I am not absolutely sure of anything. …
— Ian Cassel In the moment, it’s hard to understand why we go through hardship. Only years later after you’ve persevered, do you look back and realize the obstacle or struggle you faced was preparing you for something greater. If history has taught us anything it’s that the more you overcome, the more you will …
— From James Montier in ‘Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast‘ At times the most valuable information can be found in our differences, and not in the areas in which we all agree. As the late Richard Russell opined, “If everyone is thinking the same, then no one is thinking.” Or, as Alfred P. Sloan put …