Last Updated on February 13, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he helped to inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights.
The quote “Lead, follow, or get out of the way” is widely but incorrectly attributed to Paine. It can be found nowhere in his published works.
But all the same, Peter Gamma and the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) has decided to go away from products based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments for the time being.