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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
-- Aristotle Plato

"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
-- Mark Twain

"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
-- Luigi Mangione

"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
-- Luigi Mangione

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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
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The internet is a giant machine designed to give people what they want.Get Image

We often think of the internet enables you to do new things. But people just want to do the same things they've always done.Get Image

There are hardware connections, then there are all these interactions involved with data and software. And if you look at any big internet thing, you see it's basically a big hive of connections. A Follow is a connection. A Like is a connection.Get Image

What the internet is doing now is connecting everyone and everything, every event and every thought, in multiple ways -- layer upon layer of connection. Increasingly, everything that happens and everything we do, everyplace you go and check in, every thought you have and share, and every person who liked that thought... is all connected...and it keeps multiplying relentlessly.Get Image

The internet makes human desires more easily attainable. In other words, it offers convenience. Convenience on the internet is basically achieved by two things: speed, and cognitive ease.Get Image

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