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When the things you do have real effects, it’s no longer enough just to be pleasing. It starts to be important to get the right answers, and that’s where nerds show to advantage. Bill Gates will of course come to mind. Though notoriously lacking in social skills, he gets the right answers, at least as measured in revenue.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
20th-century philosophy saw the development of a number of new philosophical schools—including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, and poststructuralism. In terms of the eras of philosophy, it is usually labelled as contemporary philosophy (succeeding modern philosophy, which runs roughly from the time of René Descartes until the late 19th to early 20th centuries).
20th-Century Philosophy - Wikipedia
Edmund Gettier
His assertion that entropy increases almost always, rather than always, was indeed very hard to swallow for those who did not believe in molecular reality.
Subtle Is the Lord
Abraham Pais
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