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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.

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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Change Display Important Joke Perception Thinking
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Attention Deal Mental Energy Necessary Simplicity Time
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Character Discover Ideas Intuition Solution
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value

There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.

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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.

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