"In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin."

-- Michael Shermer

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“I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.162, Penguin
“Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.”
“My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.”
“When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.”

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“One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.”
“Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.”
“They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.”
“Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.”

Source : Alan Barth, James David Barber (1965). “Heritage of Liberty”

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