Brian Eno quotes and words of wisdom

"I"m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity."
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"I"m struck by the insidious, computer?driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse."
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Interesting Quotes

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald - US novelist (1896 - 1940)

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.Sir Edmund Hillary