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It’s an absence of certainty. It’s the donut hole of “now.” That puts it at a different logical level from the physical laws of cause and effect. That’s why determinism and free will are acompatible.
Free Will Explained
Dan Barker
As a module developer, you should strive to make life as easy as possible for the users of your module, even if that means extra work for you. Another way of expressing this idea is that it is more important for a module to have a simple interface than a simple implementation.
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
We seek for every possibility of life and sentience, because the universe is vast and cold and mostly empty, and variance from that void is to be treasured.
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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