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The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is—not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.
—Robert M. Pirsig
Friday, August 01, 2008

On willpower (Morinaga)

To take the unsettled self in hand, under whatever conditions, and return to the mind with which one set out; to pick oneself up again, after the mind changes, weakens, and breaks down, and stiffen the determination; to carry through the oft-reconstructed original vow—isn't this the meaning of courage?
Soko Morinaga, Novice To Master: An Ongoing Lesson In The Extent Of My Own Stupidity

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