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• Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off…

  Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”

• The man will be, by then, at the end of his journey of learning, and almost without warning he will come upon the last of his enemies: Old age! This enemy is the cruellest of all, the one he won’t be able to defeat completely, but only fight…

  Carlos Castanedas

• 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 each having the…

  Nick Cave

• If we look with curiosity at people who do not share our values, they become interesting rather than threatening. As I’ve grown older I’ve learnt that the world and the people in it are surprisingly interesting, and that the more you look and…

  Nick Cave

• Harvard's longest longitudinal study says... that the people who live the best lives, the most fulfilled lives weren't the ones who made the most money, they weren't the ones that stayed the healthiest, they weren't the ones that exercised the most,…

  Adam Dell

• As AI rises, it doesn’t just compete with us; it laps us. It can score 100% on the test faster than you can pick up your pencil. It can write cleaner code, diagnose diseases, and summarize legal briefs in seconds. In the very near future, raw…

  Jensen Huang

• Honor your scars. Don’t hide your failures. Analyze them. Your past struggles are the data points that form your intuition. They are the reason you can look at an AI-generated solution and say, “That works logically, but humans will hate…

  Shane Collins

• You will not lose your job to AI. You will lose your job to someone who uses AI.

  Jensen Huang

• Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion

  W. Edwards Deming

• It takes a lot of work to make something simple

  Steve Wozniak

• Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.

  J.K. Rowling

• If seeing to it that people are adequately cared for requires compassionate attention to need, these projects can’t be completed by AI. That said, AI is here to stay. As we design human futures, we need people who recognize the value of care…

  Rachel Robison-Greene

• Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon.

  Ayn Rand

• Humans need to remember that AI is nothing other than a vast prediction model of words trained by none other than…other humans. It will reflect the same misinformation and biases that exist in human nature.

  Bob, NY Times comment

• AI isn't talking to us - we are talking to ourselves.

  Shane Lynch

• LLMs function as something like conceptual probes, forcing us to make explicit distinctions that human language allowed us to leave implicit. They separate competence from experience, fluency from understanding, linguistic behavior from…

  William Benzon

• AI is entirely based in the theft of the work produce by minds of other people. Pay up for what you stole.

  NYTimes reader

• woo the muse of the odd

  Cory Doctorow

• I don't think you can last by meeting the contemporary public taste, the taste from the last quarterly report. I don't think you can last by following demographics and carefully meeting expectations. I don't know many works of art that last that are…

  Bruce Sterling

• Every word is a bundle, its sense protruding out of it in every direction, not tending toward a single official point.

  Mandelshtam