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• It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking about what we are doing.
  The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the numbers of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them....
• Civilization Law #1: Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations one can do without thinking about them.
• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations one can do without thinking about them.
• The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
  -- A.N. Whitehead...
• We think in generalities, we live in detail. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• Everything important has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
  Alfred North Whitehead...