At the Battle of Hastings in 1066 William the Conqueror gained the whole of England in a single day for the cost of a few thousand dead. Nuclear weapons and cyberwarfare, by contrast, are high-damage, low-profit technologies. You could use such tools to destroy entire countries, but not to build profitable empires.
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Tolstoy
I found that for people of my circle there were four ways out of the terrible position in which we are all placed. The first was that of ignorance. It consists in not knowing, not understanding, that life is an evil and an absurdity.
People of this sort ... have not yet understood that question of life.... They see neither the dragon that awaits
LAW 1: NEVER OUTSHINE THE MASTER
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite—inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
LAW 2:
It will break me. She will destroy me, ruin me even more than I have already been, and it will be the end of everything I have worked so hard for. Everything I have worked so hard to build, to keep, to kill for and fight for. Yet was it even worth the effort? Am I losing it or rejecting it?
