"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity."

-- Vernor Vinge

#Humanity Quotes #Domain Quotes #Fractions Quotes

“I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.”
“All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (2009). “The Logic of Interdisciplinarity: The Monist-series”
“When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.”
“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity”
“With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.”
“Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.”

Source : Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."
“~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~”
“Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.”

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