"Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek."

-- China Mieville

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“If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.”
“Chocolate is what I love. I have it every day.”
“Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.”

Source : Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.110
“Size doesn't matter, fast data is better than big data”
“My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up cheerleading for highly dubious opinions on historical, scientific, and metaphysical matters, simply on the bases of emotional preference and the inertia of tradition. They demand conformity to these beliefs, and if you cannot swim with the current, then, well partner, maybe you'd be happier in another pool, another lake in fact, the one ablaze with burning sulfur.”
“As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.”
“This is the better one. It's identical.”
“Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.”

Source : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 19 (1862)

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