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โThis invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory... for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.โ - Socrates, circa 5th century BCE, recounting how an ancient King of Egypt lamented the then-recent invention of the book. (Source: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0174%3Atext%3DPhaedrus%3Apage%3D275)
โFor never has experience been contradicted more thoroughly than strategic experience by tactical warfare, economic experience by inflation, bodily experience by mechanical warfare, moral experience by those in power.โ