the prisoner's dilemma...

"Don't make the mainstream wrong."
--Marshall Thurber

"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! ... They say I'm a fool to oppose things like these, but I'm going to continue to speak for the trees!"
--The Lorax

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
--Napoleon Hill

"We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. . . . In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual's leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war."
--R. Buckminster Fuller