In a very deep sense, I think the biggest miracle that we need to create the super powerful A.I. is already behind us. It’s already in the rearview mirror. We just needed an algorithm that could learn and a network architecture that could somehow encode the knowledge and the capability to reason.
~ Sam Altman
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
~ Che Guevara
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National loyalty is founded in the love of place, of the customs and traditions that have been inscribed in the landscape and of the desire to protect these good things through a common law and a common loyalty.
~ Roger Scruton
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes. What more is there to say?
~ William Butler Yeats
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Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
~ John le Carré
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I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
~ Mark Twain
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
~ Mark Twain
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Today, we tend to think of economic and racial egalitarianism as closely yoked causes. One hundred years ago, this was far from the case. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of those Americans most skeptical of corporate power were also the most hostile to racial equality, while those Americans who most adamantly rejected economic reform hoped to mobilize racial minorities as allies.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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