Trimming Circles leoveanu's writings

Trimming Circles

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    “The dreamers look skyward with longing. The Internet hums with its usual promise — you will find your people, your myth, your wonder, and maybe your transformation. T...

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    “Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” — Judge Holden

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    “And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can’t understand their analysis and you can’t verify their answers. You have to take their wo...

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    “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Carroll

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    “You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.” — Pearl

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    “People are the weakest link in the security chain.” — Mitnick

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    “Because of your work, I can do my life’s work in my lifetime.” — somebody to Jensen Huang

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    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Huxley

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    “Are we justified in assuming a model of nature for which no calculable simulation is possible?” — Zuse

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    “Deep understanding of reality is intrinsically dual use.” — Nielsen

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    “Of all the jobs in front of us, the most important is to ensure a happy life for our people. Every family hopes that their children can have a good education, their s...

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    When Tokens Bend

    “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a ...

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    “The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!” — Alexander Pope

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    “Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.” — Djikstra

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    “Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters...

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    “The idea was you had to do something to counteract your pure distractive consumerism. What Starbucks enables you to do is be a consumerist without any bad conscience ...

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    Ikigai

    “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” — Kubrick

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    “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” — Turing

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    “LA told me, “You’ll be a pop star All you have to change is everything you are.” — P!nk

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    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” — Lovecraft

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    Back to Writing

    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” — Hemingway

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    What Is Science?

    “Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything.” — Diaspora