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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability to integrate broadly. According to Gary Marcus, a psychology and neural science professor who sold his machine learning company to Uber, “In narrow enough worlds, humans may not have much to contribute much longer. In more open-ended games, I think they certainly will. Not just games, in open ended real-world problems we’re still crushing the machines.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World