Erikc Perez-Perez

it's all worth nothing compared to the freedom to express the next idea. — virgil

“A developed country is not one where the poor own cars, but one where the rich use public transportation.” — Gustavo Pedro

If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Being Human vs human being

“We find purpose from and for periodic but powerful transcendent moments of joy.” — Matthew Fisher

"You thought, as a boy, that a man is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do…”