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"The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Not yet. So though humanity conquered the very stars, it remained unable to conquer the darkness within."
"There is no such complicated situation which people could not make more complicated."
"Many lies lie between one truth."
"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."
"Many books describe different problem solving techniques, but solving complicated problems in reality is not so easy."
"The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale."
"The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity."
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
"Robust systems have a dynamic hierarchy of nested behaviors. How many moves ahead are you able to think when playing chess? How much effort are you willing to commit to understanding the deeply nuanced structure? Probably, success is not what you think it is. Adventures require novelty. Value has interesting surprises."
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"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body."
"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."
"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
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