Jamais Cascio Quotes
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.
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'If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.' - Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions
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Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.
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The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark.
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To-day, the road all runners come,Shoulder-high, we bring you home,And set you at your threshold down,Townsman of a stiller town.
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Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.
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There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.
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Chamdi is always uncomfortable when he asks for something. Each morning, all the children collect in this prayer room and, instead of praying, they close their eyes and make demands. Chamdi does not feel this is real prayer. To him, real prayer means sending a bright thought, like "Thank you" or "I love you", too heaven. That is prayer. The moment you ask for something, the prayer room becomes a marketplace.
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Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
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It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
