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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.
  -- Alfred North Whitehead...
• 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...
• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical
  At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• We think in generalities, we live in detail. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• There is no choice before us. Either we must Succeed in providing the rational coordination of impulses and guts, or for centuries civilization will sink into a mere welter of minor excitements.
• There is no choice before us. Either we must Succeed in providing the rational coordination of impulses and guts, or for centuries civilization will sink into a mere welter of minor excitements.