The further backward you look, the further forward you can see. —WINSTON CHURCHILL Two billion years ago, our ancestors were microbes; a half-billion years ago, fish; a hundred million years ago, something like mice; ten million years ago, arboreal apes; and a million years ago, proto-humans puzzling out the taming of fire. Our evolutionary lineage is marked by mastery of change. In our time, the pace is quickening. —CARL SAGAN Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any problems beyond that are not ours to solve …. [T]here are no hard problems, only problems that
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