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Intelligence is like TNT. It's not a virtue... it can just destroy things very quickly, for good or for ill.



I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being -- forgive me -- rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

--Albus Dumbledore


I have to say that the really truly awful mistakes I've seen people make in my career in computing were actually extremely bright people acting with sheer hubris.


-- Typed on a machine only possible because a lot of very smart people came before me.

I wish you luck in your future hunter-gatherer career.


Did you miss the part where I said "good or ill"?




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