Men suck, even imaginary ones
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
A black hole holds all the colors of the universe.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
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...