“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Carroll

“You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.” — Pearl

“I worry about this every time I cut my fingernails or have my hair cut — at what point did my Markov blanket become an external state?” — Friston

“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.” — Virilio

“People are the weakest link in the security chain.” — Mitnick

“Pick up Moby Dick and open it up to page one. It says, ‘Call me Ishmael.’ Call whom Ishmael? Call Melville Ishmael? No. Call Ishmael Ishmael. Melville has created a f...

“Our lives, the world, it’s all just lies, it’s all a story that we’re making up until a more compelling story comes along.” — Moore

“People tend to approximate the product rather than attacking it in a realistic, true way at any elementary level—regardless of how elementary—but it must be entirely ...

“Because of your work, I can do my life’s work in my lifetime.” — somebody to Jensen Huang

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Huxley

“Are we justified in assuming a model of nature for which no calculable simulation is possible?” — Zuse

“Deep understanding of reality is intrinsically dual use.” — Nielsen

“Of all the jobs in front of us, the most important is to ensure a happy life for our people. Every family hopes that their children can have a good education, their s...

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a ...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Sinclair

“The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!” — Alexander Pope

“Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.” — Djikstra

“Any successful value system faces ontological instability. As it changes the world around it, it undermines its own assumptions.” — Tivy

“Il n’y a pas de hors-texte.” — Derrida

“Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters...

“The idea was you had to do something to counteract your pure distractive consumerism. What Starbucks enables you to do is be a consumerist without any bad conscience ...

“Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Laozi

“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” — Kubrick

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” — Turing

“LA told me, “You’ll be a pop star All you have to change is everything you are.” — P!nk

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” — Lovecraft

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” — Hemingway

“Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything.” — Diaspora