one day humans will succeed in making humans irrelevant.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. Said David F. Wallace.

He’s more of a robot than the computational algorithms he owns.

Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in a 1754 letter to Horace Mann. Walpole claimed to have taken it from the Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip,” whose heroes were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.”

Wikipedia, made by humans, for free, is a better search engine than Google, the most expensive and sophisticated algorithm in the world.

We all want the unknowable, the sublime.

For the individual, time may speed up or slow down, whereas, for science, it would remain the same.

Self-absorption is practically a prerequisite for entrepreneurs.

Is it nonsense or brilliance? Wrote Virginia Woolf in the margin of her own manuscript.