A thought does not fit inside a sound wave, so most of what a person means is lost before it reaches anybody else.

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• A genuinely original thought is nearly impossible, because everyone is born into traditions of thinking that most people never notice, let alone question. JBJennifer Burns19 Jan 2025
• A thought that was never captured was never uploaded, so AI has never seen it, and that is where humans remain unique. FLFei-Fei Li10 Aug 2026
• You can build anything now, but not everything is worth building; what matters is whether ideas take a shape somebody else would want to use. JBJohn Bai25 Aug 2026
• Often people mistake the depth of thought needed to create something that coheres for making something that looks aesthetically simple, which is almost never the case of anything great. JYJason Yuan15 Jul 2026
• An inability to explain something simply often reflects not yet understanding the problem well enough to compress it. VBVicki Boykis12 Aug 2026

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