Abnormal Is So Common, It's Practically Normal.

If The Best Way To Learn To Succeed Is To Fail As Fast As Possible, Then The Second-best Way Is To Watch Someone Else Fail As Fast As Possible. Watching Someone Else Screw Up Is A Kind Of Rehearsal For Your Own Eventual Downfall. A Close Observation Of Someone Else's Attempt To Resolve A Difficulty Is A Great Way To Acquire Real-world Insight Into Whether And When To Deploy Their Method In Your Own Times Of Trouble.

We Don’t Care About What You Did Yesterday—we Care About What You’re Going To Do Tomorrow.

Universal Access To Human Knowledge Is In Our Grasp, For The First Time In The History Of The World. This Is Not A Bad Thing.

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Take It From Someone Who's Read The Wikipedia Entry: This Is How The Ottoman Empire Was Won: Madden Horsemen Fueled By Lethal Jet-black Coffee-mud.