Carver Mead on Faith

Carver Mead

Carver Mead

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Moore’s Law is really a thing about human activity, it’s about vision, it’s about what you’re allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.

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“Interview with Carver Mead,” American Spectator, Arlington, Virginia: The American Spectator, 2001.09

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