Quotes

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?

George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

Goethe said once “if we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming”.

Kyla Scanlon • Language, Loneliness, and AI

there is also a world where we fall into the trap that TS Eliot describes “where is the life we have lost in living? where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

Kyla Scanlon • Language, Loneliness, and AI

Oscar Wilde once said “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”.

Kyla Scanlon • Language, Loneliness, and AI

Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not "die" in the winter but quietly prepare for another season

James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

-Tolkien

Tech optimists keep promising us we’re just one innovation away from magically enhancing our capacity for connection and meaning. Meanwhile, the messy, unoptimisable business of being alive remains stubbornly resistant to algorithmic solutions, reminding us that our limitations are the very features that make our existence worthwhile

-Kai, Dense Dis

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect

- Will Guidara, unreasonable hospitality