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• Humankind will proceed toward perfection when it feels that humanity is: A limitless sky and a shoreless ocean, an ever-blazing flame, an eternally gleaming light, a wind when it gusts and when it is calm, a cloud when it thunders and lightnings…

  Kahlil Gibran

• If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, then we couldn’t understand it.

  a fortune cookie

• I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale. If you could put anything on it, then after a while, it would have everything on it. 

But for the web to have…

  Tim Berners-Lee

• If you make the whole world run by fakes and simulations, everybody becomes increasingly more dysfunctional. Everybody becomes alienated and nervous and unsure of their own value, and the whole thing falls apart, and at some point, it’s like…

  Jaron Lanier

• # How to become wiser ## ​Seeking perspective What’s another way to look at this? What assumptions am I making right now? How would an objective observer describe what happened? Who is this benefitting and who is it hurting? What would…

  Stephanie Harrison

• I’m not one of those people with their heads in the clouds; I’m one of those whose entire body has been consumed by the clouds.

  Antero Alli

• I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive… so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

• Our vision is a just and livable world with cooperatively owned enterprise as a cornerstone of a sustainable economy. Our mission is to serve our community with quality food and honest information. One of our core values is to build community by…

  Lisa Sedlar

• The universe evolve atoms, atoms evolve molecules, molecules evolve life, life evolves man, man engineers algorithms, algorithms engineer algorithms, algorithms engineer artificial life, artificial life evolves artificial man, artificial man…

  Michael Hamilton

• # Poems, Prayers and Promises I’ve been lately thinking about my life's time. 
All the things I've done and how it's been
. And I can't help believing in my own mind. 
I know I'm gonna hate to see it end. I've seen a lot of sunshine,…

  John Denver

• Easy: how quickly you can achieve what you want Simple: how quickly you can understand the model

  Hajime Hoshi

• I have seen a tree split in two from the opposing weight of its branches. It can survive, though its heart is exposed. I have seen a country do this too. I have heard an elder say, that we must be like the willow - bend not to break. I have…

  Rena Priest

• Thinking isn’t passive. Thinking isn’t an act of consumption. Thinking is an act of production that comes through the writing, and writing alone. To understand something, you have to write your way into it. This means working through the doubt…

  Mark Blyth

• The first thing we can do in these situations is to acknowledge internally that the pictures we have in our head, what we think happened, may not be accurate. Our practice is to breathe and walk until we are more calm and relaxed. The second…

  Thich Nhat Hanh

• The best thing that we’re put here for’s to see. 

  Robert Frost

• What we once took to be the clear light of awareness may be more like a story our brains tell about recursive processes.

  Sherman J. Clark

• Buddhist philosophy is multi-faceted, but has at its core a few fundamental aspects. These include the three marks of existence – dukkha (suffering), anicca(impermanence), anatta (no self) describe reality and the four noble truths, setting out…

  Malcolm Murray

• In AI, two alternate positions are often simultaneously true. AI is both emotionally intelligent and tone deaf. It is both a glorified text predictor and a highly creative partner. It is costing jobs, yet creating them. It is dumbing us down, but…

  Alex Connock

• A new cosmology of intelligence These four patterns form a lifecycle of intelligence where each pattern generates the conditions for the next: • Local intelligence creates the contingent variations that become the foundation for collective…

  R. B. Griggs

• Intellectually, I have become deeply convinced that the importance of AI is, if anything, underhyped. The sorry attempts to pretend we don’t stand at the precipice of a technological, economic, social and cultural revolution are little more than…

  Yascha Mounk