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" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. "

Martin H. Fischer

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" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "

" Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. "

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" If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. "

" By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code. "

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" Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know. "

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