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• Let me explain to you one of the key elements involved in the writing process. Because it may seem outwardly that the pen and the paper and the chair play an important role. But they’re all somewhat incidental to the actual using of the brain.

  Jerry Seinfeld

• There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

  Franz Kafka

• The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Knowledge is the process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

  Martin H. Fischer

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

• Every tool that exists today, from hammers to particle accelerators, has been constructed with others tools, and those with other tools, and so on, and eventually all tools where fabricated with rocks.

  Mark Frauendfelder

• The future is a romance of the mind. Like all romances, it is made of shadow and light. Heroes take great leaps of ingenuity. Audiences experience the specter of cataclysm. This romance is fueled by human sentiments of every ilk fear, anger, hate,…

  Kathi Van

• No matter how it is deployed, integrated digital information technology increases man’s power over manpower to propagandize, power to persuade, power to drive mad.

  Malloy Owen

• Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
They have hands, but they handle not:…

  Psalm 115:4

• I’m having an out of money experience

  Bumper sticker

• The longer you do anything, the more mistakes that you will make cumulatively.

  Elon Musk

• To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration and fear that will be passed on for generations to come.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

• Every solution to a problem ends with the creation of new problems, and these too can be solved. Our knowledge consists of misconceptions, which have the virtue of containing less severe errors than our previous misconceptions.

  David Deutsch

• Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.

  Winston Churchill

• Science and reality have an anti-hyper-individualist bias.

  Cory Doctorow

• An apocalypse is a relative thing.

  N.K. Jeminsin

• There is a science of life, but life itself is no science. We need to invent and give meaning to what we do and experience. It is an unavoidable feature of the human condition.

  Akim Reinhardt

• We, who cannot even put our own planetary home in order, riven with rivalries and hatreds; are we to venture out into space? By the time we are ready to settle even the nearest other planetary systems, we will have changed...it will be a species…

  Carl Sagan

• Proclaiming what’s going to happen is a popular way to shrug off taking responsibility for helping to determine what’s going to happen.

  Rebecca Solnit

• There is no one way the mind works, because the mind is not one thing. Instead, the mind has parts, and the different parts of the mind operate in different ways: Seeing a color works differently than planning a vacation, which works differently…

  Chaz Firestone and Brian Scholl