Vitalik Buterin
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Meditating on the fact that "time" is the Latin word for "be afraid".
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tldr (tim reilly)
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Anc Greek "timé" is "st's honor -> value -> price" Fwiw, English language etymologists believe "time" comes from Old English "tīd", which is related to German "Zeit", which traces to Indo-European "deh₂y-"... "to divide" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%AE https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Zeit
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tldr (tim reilly)
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Also @vitalik.eth I think Shakespeare was playing w your same theme in one of my favorite poems ever (Sonnet 64): "Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away." ^ Shakespeare faux-derives "ruminate" (meditate) from "ruin", and makes Time the source of this ruin.
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tldr (tim reilly)
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The other genius thing here: If we remove the word "ruin" from "ruminate" we are left with "mate" – ie, what we seek in love. (Shakespeare is showing us, brutally, what would be the case if Time did *not* come and take our love away.)
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