Ideas I want to write about
“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Disgrace Quotes by J.M. Coetzee
This Tolkien line has crushed me.
youtube.comConversation at MIT in 1953:
Marvin Minsky, "We're going to make machines intelligent. We are going to make them conscious!"
Doug Engelbart replied, "You're going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to do for the people?"
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi