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The pitfall of Bene Gesserit training, she reminded herself, lay in the powers granted: such powers predisposed one to vanity and pride. But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier . . . including one’s own ignorance.
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
The ultimate purpose of habits is to solve the problems of life with as little energy and effort as possible.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The very notion of complexity presents conceptual and technical challenges. Many definitions have been proposed and many of these are not quantifiable in ways that allow the property to be measured. I maintain that the concepts of information, complexity, and evolution are so deeply intertwined that only by considering the three together can we make progress toward that long sought understanding. The glue that ties it all together is the concept of computation.
The Engine of Complexity
John Hollenbeck and John Mayfield
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