You like it in jail?It’s not too bad. You don’t meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? – Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
To be human is to be ‘a’ human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity
To be human is to be ‘a’ human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity (Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive)
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. (Lao Tzu)
Accept yourself, love yourself
Accept yourself, love yourself. (Chanel Iman)
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid. (Christopher Hitchens)
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity (Napoléon Bonaparte)
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves – indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves – indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming (Hanna Rosin)
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking (Tom Hodgkinson)
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing (Renata Adler, Speedboat)
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it (Simone Weil)