“ A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character. Israelmore Ayivor
“ 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.… Ray Kurzweil
“ If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ 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? Arthur Schopenhauer
“ My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days… Gillian Flynn
