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[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Web searched it, and the quote from his speech "This is water" is actually

Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth.

Edit: The speech was a good read

[–] DaniNatrix@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the added context and providing a link for folks! It's a decent commencement speech overall and I appreciate the attention he draws to the importance (and difficulty) of perspective in it. If anyone understood the "great and terrible truth" of the adage, it would be him.