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They are willing to admit mistakes (see Skill #9: Own Your Mistakes), and to admit that they do not have all the “correct” answers. Their humility and lack of defensiveness is one of the most compelling reasons these engineers rise to the
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Dan fucking Abramov
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
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“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
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