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Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#expect #familiar #new #new technology #part

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#answer #ask #enough #god #i

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years? ↗

— Charles Eames

#going #how #look #problem #questions

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bewilderment #characteristic #deep #human #humor

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game. ↗

— George Eads

#been #body #child #dead #fights

I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#better way #get #glory #i #important

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bonus #just #life #out #since

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#become #biology #century #part #physics

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fact #getting #me #no reason #reason

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#effectiveness #fail #job #judges #marketplace