Heraclitus

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

Carl Sagan

Keeping an open mind is a virtue—but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out.

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes–an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

They laughed at Columbus and they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Aka we don’t know what will happen until we have articulate a theory.

Bill Gates

Billy on paradigm creation:

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

Billy on the newly emerging personal computer market in the late 1970s:

Nobody really knew what was going on. So many things would have obviously needed to be done if you‘d had the vision back then. Nobody had the view of the market.

Well, almost nobody (Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak).

Karl Popper

“No matter how many instances of white swans we have observed, that does not justify the inference that all swans are white.“

Buckminster Fuller

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.“

John Holt

“Intelligence is not the measure of how much we know how to do, but of how we behave when we don’t know what to do.“

John Maynard Keynes

“It’s better to fail conventionally than succeed unconventionally.“

Deepak Chopra

“It’s the prime principle of creativity: You must take risks. All creativity lies in the unknown, not in the known.“

Slime Molds

When scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, with food used to represent urban areas, and after a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network: all this without any brain https://t.co/v5iBESZUGK pic.twitter.com/XQYyhWOFf0

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 3, 2019

Animated Maps: Underwater Cables

This is from Visual Capitalist - Wired World: 35 Years of Submarine Cables in One Map. For more context, check out my post from May 19: Tiefseeglasfasernetzwerke und ihre Rolle im Machtspiel um neue kritische Infrastrukturen (Deep-sea fibre networks and their role in the competition for new critical infrastructures).