To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
~ Mark Twain
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Monthly Archives: March 2005
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
~ Marcel Proust
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AI writing never challenges the way we think or see. It can’t do so, even if you explicitly ask it to. And this limitation reveals something important about the source of human creativity. All writing, all speech, has to follow conventions; to know how to use a language is to know how other people already use it. But it’s also possible to find new ways of using it, to say things in a way no one has ever heard before. This possibility exists because we can appeal to something more fundamental than language—our experiences of reality, which are so varied and surprising that language can never exhaust them.
~ Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
~ Charles Dickens
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotence.
~ Albert Camus
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