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• The power lies in the doing itself. One action. One breath. One moment. Not the endless chain of what's next. It's the difference between living and surviving. When I stay present with what's in front of me—really stay—something miraculous...

  Whit King

• If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not ‘washing the dishes to wash the dishes.’ What’s more, we are not alive during...

  Thich Nhat Hanh

• Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

  Cory Doctorow

• We’re all going to die. Life is too short to have a stick up your ass.

  Eric Schenck

• Love to eat them mousies, Mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off, Nibble on the tiny feet.

  Bernard Kliban

• Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw. The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career - even as their coding...

  Simon Willison

• The world is my country, science is my religion.

  Christiaan Huygens

• People define themselves in terms of ancestry, religion, language, history, values, customs, and institutions. They identify with cultural groups: tribes, ethnic groups, religious communities, nations, and, at the broadest level, civilizations.

  Samuel Huntington

• The A.I. future holds the possibility that one day you won’t need to know how to do everything in order to do everything.

  Brynjolfsson

• Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

  Walt Whitman

• What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for...

  Carl Sagan

• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• What Have I Learned What have I learned but 
the proper use for several tools? The moments 
between hard pleasant tasks To sit silent, drink wine,
 and think my own kind
 of dry crusty thoughts. —the first Calochortus...

  Gary Snyder

• I'm the problem, it's me
. At teatime, everybody agrees
. I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror

  Taylor Swift

• The first, of course, is to read. It’s surprising how many people think they want to be writers but they don’t really like to read books… The second is to write, every day, whether you like it or not. Screw inspiration.

  Octavia Butler

• Questions to ask your parents: 1. “What do you hope people say about you after you're gone?” 2. “What were you afraid of when you became a parent?” 3. “What did love look like in your family growing up?” 4. “What do you wish more...

  Angela Haupt

• Technology maps out the space of the possible — together with nature itself, technology sets the boundaries for what human beings can do. That possibility space is then filled by human initiative and institutions, until they bump up against the...

  Noah Smith

• Focused agency >>> dispersed curiosity When intelligence is free, pay up in imagination Cultivate taste like art curators and fashion designers ChatGPT is not a person, but it is your acquaintance To know if AI works, don’t read news—try it...

  Alberto Romero

• The biggest barrier to using chatbots productively is lack of imagination. The only way to become adept at using them is to keep pushing your own envelope by trying to get help from them in novel contexts.

  Arnold Kling

• If you want new ideas, read old books.

  Shane Parrish