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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....
• The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
  -- A.N. Whitehead...
• The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization.
  When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying....
• Fortune's Rules for Memo Wars: #2 Given the incredible advances in sociocybernetics and telepsychology over the last few yea
  we are now able to completely understand everything that the author of an memo is trying to say....
• Proof techniques #1: Proof by Induction. This technique is used on equations with n in them.
  Induction techniques are very popular, even the military used them....