We get to put a dent in the universe.

- Wilson Miner

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We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

– marshall mcluhan

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. 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.”

― Isaac Asimov

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

— Steven Paul Jobs

Everything about computers today surprises me; there wasn’t a single thing that I could have predicted 30 years ago

— Donald Knuth

When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition to structure the experience. The work of the artist is to find patterns

— Marshall McLuhan

Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor’s study could destroy a civilization.

— Isaiah Berlin, The Power of Ideas

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

— Colin Powell