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In 250 years, reading and writing will have turned out to be a fad.

— Bran Ferren

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Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet.

"Vibrant companies must put together five-year plans. But they must be willing to change these five-year plans every single year."

“The Net, I guarantee you, really is fire. I think it’s more important than the invention of movable type.”

Being a successful inventor, starts with being curious, and asking the right questions.

The Internet represents the greatest story telling technology since the development of language. It will be far more important than reading and writing as a purposeful tool. Everything that is enabled by story telling will be enabled by the Internet.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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