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Quote by Daniel Dennett
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad ra

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs good tricks. – Daniel Dennett

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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesnt need its brain anymore so it eats it! – Daniel Dennett

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Home
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. – Daniel Dennett

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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. – Eliel Saarinen

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At some point in your life, if youre lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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If we dont have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq. – Jack Reed

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Perhaps Id like to design cars, but I dont think Id be much good at it. – Jonathan Ive

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There is a bunch of things we mean to do, and life is the time we spend meaning to do them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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