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Quote by Herbert Simon
Most of us really arent horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us

Most of us really arent horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. – Herbert Simon

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didnt have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. – Herbert Simon

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Knowledge
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Herbert Simon
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – Herbert Simon

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Information
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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If were bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if were good people we use it for good purposes. – Herbert Simon

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Technology
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In nature answers are given quietly, in the details, just waiting for discovery. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Nature isnt positive in that way. It doesnt aim itself at you. Its not being unkind to you. – David Attenborough

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Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. – Gustave Flaubert

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Nature is new every morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties, oblivious to our plans. – Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, “Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer,” 2003 September 25th

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Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives. – Ovid

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. – Madame Belazy

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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. – Raymond Chandler

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