In Praise of Possibilities

Some sentences make better futures possible.

These sentences should be cherished. These sentences should be learned. For they have the ability to unlock seemingly impossible futures. To leap the motivation gap and spur innovators and inventors onwards.

The best sentences reframe ideas. They are, of course, gross simplifications.

But useful ones.

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“There are only two real obstacles to any problem: physics and knowledge. If it’s physically possible, then the fundamental obstacle is always knowledge.”

- David Deutsch

“Painting a masterpiece as essentially discovering it within the set of all possible images. It’s as if we are searching through all the possibilities for the one we want.”

- Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman

“The ideas are there, you just have to think of them.”

-Wille Motherway

“Live in the future, then build what’s missing.”

-Paul Graham

“This is the moment that folks in the future will look back at and say, “Oh, to have been alive and well back then!" ... You are not late.”

-Kevin Kelly