"I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know."

-- Robert Browning

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“Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however they want. Seasteads are their chance to demonstrate their vision can work. All that matters is that people can create, join, and leave seasteads voluntarily. As long as people can choose among seasteads, the best ways of living together will prosper, and the ones that people don't like will fail.”

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“We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.”
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
“Travel is like a university without walls.”
“Waves are like women, you can never get enough of them, always want a better, more dangerous one, and occasionally you get dumped.”
“To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.”
“He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.”
“I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.”

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