“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“I’m starting the story with the first atomic bomb at Trinity, which was the Manhattan Project. It was a little bit like TED: it brought a whole lot of very smart people together.”
— George Dyson
George Dyson at the birth of the computer
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“It’s better to have dangerous things in the open than think you’re going to keep them secret.”
— George Dyson
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