Purpose

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“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”

― Eric Hoffer (1898-1983)

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“Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.”

― Eric Hoffer (1898-1983)

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

"The purpose of computers is human freedom."

— Ted Nelson

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“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”

― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)

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“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view”

― Max Planck (1858-1947)

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"Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. … Nature does not act by purposes."

― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)

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Purpose “ … was the first phenomenon of life: the first step

from a universe in which entropy and chaos held sway toward

one in which purposes residing in organisms direct external

physical processes and create new physical relationships”.

—William Powers