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“I often wonder what Einstein would have done in my position. At Peterson, I kept an Einstein poster in my room, the one that says 'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' Einstein was smart, maybe even as smart as Laserator, but he played it way too safe. Then again, nobody ever threw a grappling hook at Einstein. I like to think he would have enjoyed my work, if he could have seen it. But no one sees anything I do, not until it's hovering over Chicago.”

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Book:Soon I Will Be Invincible
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“Being pragmatic means recognizing systemic flaws, shortcomings, and outright wrongs, yet nevertheless trying to make it work better. Being pragmatic means embracing reality in all of its contradictions, complexities, and ambiguities of the present and the past, while keeping your eyes on the prize for the future.”

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Book:The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
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“Progress often requires pragmatism, not purity or perfection. We cannot work only with individuals and institutions that we agree with on every single position on every issue across every single point on a long timeline.”

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Book:The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
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