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

We trivialize virtually everything meaningful to humans in a market economy.

What we are teaching AI/machine learning models/NLP is outdated almost instantly. Modeling human behavior and thought is aiming at an ever-shifting target.

The tyranny of electronic revisions means that one could work on a deck forever and never “finish” it.

People say “life is messy” and then want tidy stories.

What seems beautiful to me, what I should most like to do, would be a book about nothing, a book without any exterior ties, but sustained by the internal force of its style . . . a book which would have almost no subject, or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible, if that is possible. The most beautiful works are those with least m

A list of towns visited does not describe a journey. Language is always an abbreviation.

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

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