Henri J.M. Nouwen Quote

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....

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn't. L...