Annie Dillard Quote

I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you reall...

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.