“Settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.”
― Patrick Wolfe

“The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.”
― Smedley Butler, 1933

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“Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones.”
— Marvin Minsky, 1981

“Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.”
— David Ricardo, 1810

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
— T. S. Eliot

“[W]e are now but on the threshold of the coming era of true cooperation. The time is fast going by for the great personal or individual achievement of any one man standing alone and without the help of those around him. And the time is coming when all great things will be done by the cooperation of many men in which each man performs that function for which he is best suited, each man preserves his individuality and is supreme in his particular function, and each man at the same time loses none of his originality and proper personal initiative, and yet is controlled by and must work harmoniously with many other men.”
— Frederick Winslow Taylor, 1906

“As a silly monkey like myself, anything I can do to protect myself, from myself, is a win in my book.”
— Aarimous

“All executive power – from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators – has the outward appearance of efficiency.”
— William O. Douglas, 1952

“Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvisations. Ideas have to go into exchange to become or remain operative; and the medium of such exchange is the printed word.”
— William F. Buckley Jr., 1955

“Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.”
— Simón Bolívar, 1819

“Abilities wither under criticism, they blossom under encouragement.”
— Dale Carnegie

“There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible.”
— Max Tegmark

“I quickly realized that you had to have a good idea of the future if you were going to succeed as an inventor.”
— Ray Kurzweil, 2003

“Within a few tens of billions of years, curious self-improving AIs will colonize the visible cosmos in a way that’s infeasible for humans.”
— Jürgen Schmidhuber

Spec-driven vibe-coding gives you what I call ABBs—"almost" black boxes. It works, you know the interface, and you almost know what's going on inside, but not fully.