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Feel free to
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me if I say something memorable, stupid, funny, whatever.
And I'm going to finish up with a quote, maybe a little cheap shot, at the director of the NIH, who's a very charming man.
And there's this
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that the main character, Arnold, tells his mother as they're fighting about who he is and the life that he lives.
Now I'm going to
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from some of my writings: "I opened the door to my studio apartment.
Now, businesses tend to complain about this, and their, they, I don't want to take away from their entire validity of complaining about it, but I did ask a major sneaker manufacturer earlier this year what they thought about piracy, and they told me, "Well, you can't
quote
me on this, because if you
quote
me on this, I have to kill you," but they use piracy as market research.
So there's a famous
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by Shakespeare from "The Winter's Tale" where he describes adolescence as follows: "I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting."
There's a beautiful
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by the Romantic German composer Robert Schumann, who said, "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts, such is the duty of the artist."
And this is a particularly poignant
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because Schumann himself suffered from schizophrenia and died in asylum.
I'd like to end with a
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by John Keats, the Romantic English poet, a very famous
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that I'm sure all of you know.
This is a quote, and I'll just pick words out of it.
And what's interesting about this view is, again, it's a view that's held by pro-globalizers like Tom Friedman, from whose book this
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is obviously excerpted, but it's also held by anti-globalizers, who see this giant globalization tsunami that's about to wreck all our lives if it hasn't already done so.
And the best, earliest
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that I could find was one from David Livingstone, writing in the 1850s about how the railroad, the steam ship, and the telegraph were integrating East Africa perfectly with the rest of the world.
Herman Melville, who used this story as research for "Moby Dick," wrote years later, and from dry land, quote, "All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might in all human probability have been avoided had they, immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti.
The first
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is from Jean-Claude Trichet when he was governor of the European Central Bank.
The second
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is from the head of the UK Financial Services Authority.
As Dirk Helbing pointed out in the last quote, we don't really understand the complexity that relates to us, that surrounds us.
I think that this is something that will happen over the course of the next few years, but I'd like to finish with a
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about trying to predict how this will happen by somebody who's thought a lot about changes in concepts and changes in technology.
There's a wonderful
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from Benjamin Franklin.
And there's this Flaubert
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that I love: "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."
I'm going to
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from another magazine of the '60s.
So this is a time of great flourishing, and the more I look around, the more convinced I become that this quote, from the physicist Freeman Dyson, is not hyperbole at all.
Here I'll
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one of my students who said, "Sex is so good, it's good even when it's bad."
I just politely raised my hand, and when Ms. Russell acknowledged me, I said, in front of my year two classmates, and I quote, "But Miss, surely if the diagonal of the square is less than the diameter of the circle, well, the square peg will pass quite easily through the round hole."
Now I happen to completely agree with the optimism of this first quote, because on a scale of zero to Morgan Freeman's voice, it happens to be one of the most evocative accolades that I've heard come our way.
SR: Now, in the spirit of the third quote, we want to tell you about a recent project that we've been working on in lab that we've called Project Inception.
A
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by Bertrand Russell, "All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction.
Believe it or not, this is a
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from an Israeli prime minister, but it's not Ben-Gurion or Golda Meir from the era of the Shah.
I would like to end with a
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from a friend of mine and a source of inspiration, Zita Cobb, the founder of the wonderful Shorefast Foundation, based out of Fogo Island, Newfoundland.
And let me actually
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the president of Brazil, Ms. Dilma Rousseff.
And to
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a fellow security researcher, Marcus Ranum, he said that the United States is right now treating the Internet as it would be treating one of its colonies.
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