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• "Wells spoke of two types of mind. The majority of people, he said, are retropective in their habit of reasoning interpreting the things of the present solely in relation to the past. The other type of mind, much in the minority, is constructive in habit, interpreting the things of the present in relation to things designed or forseen" - Brian Aldiss, Super State (paraphrasing H G Wells) #
• "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso #
• Can the words of disgraced anthropologist Carlos Castaneda be a good metaphor for web interaction? "For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking, looking breathlessly." - http://www.philosophy-books.com/authors/castaneda.cfm #