#pool

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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#brain #brains #clever #collectively #endeavors

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— John Mason Good

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#consists #happiness #pool #running #stagnant

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

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#committee #diving #enter #essentially #evaluation