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“I think it’s natural in our forties to start wondering if we’re past the main events of our lives, or if there are still other mountains to climb.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade Legacy

“The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“AI systems are like savants.” They need stable structures and narrow worlds.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“The jazz musician is a creative artist, the classical musician is a re-creative artist.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“I want to be a great poet or I am nothing, Richard! To do that I must truly live. And a man can only truly live when Death is his permanent companion.”
― Mark Hodder, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

“If you come back with me, you’re guaranteed to survive the night.” “No,” Reacher said. “If I come back with you, I’m guaranteed to die of shame.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man