Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. …

Yann Martel
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this. ✨ Yann Martel (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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