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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Deep Reading Speed Understand
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Creation Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Problem
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
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Advice Chess Game Life
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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Believe Easy Freedom Growth Liberty Photograph Rich Society
Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Decision Philosophy World
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing

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