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What we see is all there is.
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Winning is not a destination; it's a way of life.
From Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson
We are all genes' way of making more genes.
From The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
From The Symposium by Plato
The patterns of nature are not merely external to us; they are part of our own being.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Understanding AI is less about technology and more about understanding ourselves.
I think, therefore I am.
For Humboldt, the natural world was a source of wonder and awe.
From The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
In every human being, there is a desire for beauty.
From The Symposium by Plato
If there's nothing very strange going on, there's nothing very strange going on.
The essence of life is to pass on our genes.
From The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
In every tick of the clock, there lies a secret of the universe waiting to be unraveled.
From The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
The journey of understanding is never-ending.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
From The Rebel by Albert Camus
God cannot be understood by the intellect.
From The Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous
A superintelligence would have the potential to profoundly change the world.
From Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
The sovereign individual is a product of the information age, not the industrial age.
From The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them.
Hope is the sun that never sets.
From Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The sacred is not a thing but a relationship.
From The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Quality is not just a thing you create; it's a relationship.
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Flow is not only the process of achieving happiness, but is also the process of achieving a sense of purpose.
From Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The joy of discovery is a vital part of the human experience.
The exploration of the mind and consciousness may lead us to new realms of understanding.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
We have always already been in the posthuman.
From The Neuromancer by William Gibson
Clocks are not the only way to measure time.
From The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Computers are not just tools; they are extensions of our minds.
From The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Travel is the ultimate form of self-discovery.
From The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes by Carl Hoffman
The watchmaker analogy is a flawed interpretation of evolution.
From The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
We can’t help but be fascinated by the mystery of intelligence.
From The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
When we talk about alignment, we are really talking about values.
From The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
Experience teaches us that we can never be certain of the future.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The universe doesn't allow perfection.
Reality is not something that can be captured by our conceptual models.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Speculation is the art of making decisions based on incomplete information.
You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work.
From The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
The act of thinking critically is a form of liberation.
From Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller
We are the creators of our own destiny.
From Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
We need to learn how to think about God differently in a secular age.
From The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
There is no free lunch in machine learning.
From The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Life is too short to be a boring person.
The nature of mathematical truth is deeply intertwined with the nature of the mind.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
From 1984 by George Orwell
A man’s worth is determined by what he gives and not by what he is capable of receiving.
The past, present, and future are all interconnected.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
From Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You should focus on what you can control, not what you cannot.
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The pursuit of knowledge is what drives progress.
Belief is a choice, not a necessity.
Physics and mathematics are inextricably linked; to separate them is to lose the essence of both.
From The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
The universe operates on principles that often defy our intuitive understanding.
From The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
The universe is not a collection of separate objects, but a network of relationships.
From The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
From Zero to One by Peter Thiel
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Most people believe they are in control of their lives, but they are not.
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Trust is the foundation of any currency, and Bitcoin is redefining what trust means.
From The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
The future is not predetermined; it is shaped by decisions.
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
The beauty of clouds lies in their impermanence.
The study of science cannot be divorced from the study of history.
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Happiness is not something that you can seek. It is a by-product of your actions.
Humans are not wired to be rational.
The study of magic is the study of human psychology.
From The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
Socrates taught that an examined life leads to virtue.
From Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller
The heart of the scientific method is a spirit of inquiry.
The destiny of men is in their own souls.
We are thrown into the world and must make sense of it.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Philosophy should be an adventure, not a destination.
The Apollonian and Dionysian are two fundamental artistic drives.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
A good character, which is formed by a good life, is the greatest gift of all.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Gnosticism offers a different perspective on the nature of God.
From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
You cannot put a price on art; its value is immeasurable.
From The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
The ability to learn is the most important thing in life.
From The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
The world is my representation.
From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
Science is not a body of knowledge but a way of thinking.
The man who is convinced of the truth of his beliefs is not likely to be open to the possibility that they are wrong.
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Open source is as much about the ideas as it is about the code.
From Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
The universe is not a collection of things, but a collection of relationships.
From The Cosmic Code by Heinz R. Pagels
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
It was decided that the only way to avoid war was to eliminate the possibility of war.
From Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
We are all just the products of our genes.
From The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
In electronics, as in life, there are no perfect solutions.
From The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
The passions can be regulated by reason.
The three most important words in investing are: 'I don't know.'
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer.
From The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The key question is whether we will be able to create a superintelligence that is aligned with human values.
From Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
The scout mindset is a way of thinking that involves seeking the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable.
From The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
Problems are inevitable, but solutions are always possible.