The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
The real sting here isn't about optimism versus pessimism—it's about how velocity itself has become the arbiter of truth. Hubbard saw that skepticism, once a respectable intellectual position, loses its footing when the world changes faster than arguments can be completed. A programmer in 2010 could confidently declare that nobody would trust strangers to drive them around a city; by 2015, Uber had already proven the point while the skeptic was still marshaling evidence. What matters is recognizing that in fast-moving fields, the burden of proof has shifted: naysayers must now act faster than believers, or their objections simply become footnotes to history.
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Benjamin Franklin“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
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