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A wise man knows his limitations.” And a bold one seizes opportunities.
In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man’s soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.
First Rule of Security: The likelihood of a secret’s being blown is proportional to the square of the number of people who’re in on it.”
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
It was people like these who had built the American Dream, and people like these who were needed to maintain it.
