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• Where do I think the next amazing revolution is going to come? … There’s no question that digital biology is going to be it. For the very first time in our history, in human history, biology has the opportunity to be engineering, not science.

  Jensen Huang, CEO, NVIDIA

• Cringing at your own memories does no one any good. On the other hand, systematically reviewing your older work to find the patterns in where you got it wrong (and right!) is hugely beneficial  it’s a useful process of introspection that makes…

  Cory Doctorow

• POSSE (Post Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere)

  Cory Doctorow

• Keeping a writer's notebook in public imposes an unbeatable rigor, since you can't slack off and leave notes so brief and cryptic that they neither lodge in your subconscious nor form a record clear enough to refer to in future. By contrast, keeping…

  Cory Doctorow

• In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.

  Simone de Beauvoir

• The first is humility. Humility amounts to an understanding that the world is not divided into good and bad people, but rather it is made up of all manner of individuals, each broken in their own way, each caught up in the common human struggle and…

  Nick Cave

• WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.

  Joseph Henrich

• YES It could happen any time, tornado,
earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen.
Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. That’s why we wake
and look out no guarantees
in this life. But some bonuses, like morning,
like right…

  William Stafford

• It is better to copulate than never.

  Lazarus Long

• World is crazier and more of it than we think, / Incorrigibly plural.

  Louis MacNeice

• So in the end, AI may need to experience mortality and the pain that goes with it, to have anything to share that we're interested in.

  Joannes Berque

• Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

• Tempus fugit

  Latin phrase meaning time flies

• Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

  John Stuart Mill

• We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

  Amara’s Law

• Babies and young children live in the present, the ‘now.’ Mature adults tend to live in the future. Only the senile live in the past.

  Lazarus Long

• The path of discovery runs straight through the unknown.

  OHSU

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  Carl Sagan

• Yes, I know I’m just an oxygenated carbon sack clinging to a rock hurtling through the unfeeling infinity of dark matter, but did you hear that my kid got into Princeton?

  Woody Allen in Annie Hall

• Retire from your job, not from life.

  Margaret Johnson