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In the cold war days, of course, we were giving money to Tanzania on the theory of: “Pay them to be socialist so they won’t be communist and figure out what the difference is later.” But now, I’m afraid, the ugly truth is that we care about
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“Dedication To all my enemies: I could not have done it without you.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
“clumsy charlatan like Hegel is confidently branded as such? German philosophy is precisely so, laden with contempt, mocked abroad, rejected by honest sciences – like a strumpet who, for filthy lucre, yesterday gave herself up to one, today to another; and the minds of the contemporary generation of scholars are jumbled by Hegelian nonsense: incapable of thought, coarse and stupefied, they become the prey of the vulgar materialism that has crept out of the Basilisk's egg”
― Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings: 4
― Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings: 4
“Hydrogen is an odorless colorless gas which, given enough time, turns into people”
― Cosmology: The Science of the Universe
― Cosmology: The Science of the Universe
“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
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“Seventy years of communism had destroyed the work ethic of an entire nation. Millions of Russians had been sent to the gulags for showing the slightest hint of personal initiative. The Soviets severely penalized independent thinkers, so the natural self-preservation reaction was to do as little as possible and hope that nobody would notice you.”
― Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
― Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
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