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“Link by link, click by click, search is building possibly the most lasting, ponderous, and significant cultural artifact in the history of humankind: the Database of Intentions.”
― John Battelle, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“When history was made at Kitty Hawk [by the Wright brothers - inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane], it was man with machine - not man against machine. Today we don't think of aviation as "artificial flight" - it's simply flight. In the same way, we shouldn't think of technological intelligence as artificial, but rather as intelligence that serves to augment human capabilities and capacities.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“Would you prefer to have $100,000 today or be a millionaire in 1920? Many would love to be a millionaire in the previous century, but your money then could not buy lifesaving penicillin, a phone call to family on the other side of the county, or many of the benefits of innovations we take granted today.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“Capitalist economies reward qualities like innovation, risk-taking, and hard work - qualities that generate value, produce wealth, and usually lead to benefits for many people throughout the society.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry

“Perhaps we can finally accept that we will never be able to fully understand our own existence. Nonetheless, Kurt Vonnegut gives us good advice on how to live fully within that uncertainty: “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Brian Klaas, Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters