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I sense some bias in your username.

ahem.

Why must we revive the 'intellectual joy' of it? What does that mean - he wants to prescribe how people should behave so they/we are doing something he finds joyful? If not that meaning, what meaning?

And if not for the business potential, then to what end must we have more undirected churning through the potentials of CS? I'm guessing that most of the 'potential' will be the digital equivalent of earwax cake - potentially doable but so what?

Guess I'll have to read his book to find out. :/



- It's not bias. It's life purpose.

- CS is an extension of physics. If Newton didn't write Principia, America would not have happened, nor would have Apple Computers. CS attracted me because of the possibility to improve civilization for the better by advancing science.

- Money is freedom to an extent, then it becomes a fetter.

- You don't even have to read his book. Just think for yourself.


> If Newton didn't write Principia, America would not have happened

That made me curious. What is the chain of causation here?


Do you know how much Newton's work impacted Jefferson? It was almost as much as Bob Dylan's influence on Steve Jobs.




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