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• 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 which we can perform without thinking.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• 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....
• Berserkers do it without thinking
• Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
• Okay, I think that I can now return to my country and my village.
  By the way, how many forbidden books do you have?" "Oh,", one of them said to me, " their number grows up geometrically....
• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
  -- Sir William Bragg...
• You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Pape
• Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances. -- Seymour Cray