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"We see an entire planet which has many limitations."
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"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up."
"All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language."
"Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate."
"A person's greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity."
"Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people."
"Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius."
"You can not live with a paw in each world."
"I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style."
"Fear clogged human potential."
"Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity, our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations."
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"The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now."
"Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all."
"If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them."
"It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly."
"Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons."
"Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically."
"One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets."
"One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations."
"Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there."
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