How do I know what I am until I see what I do?
Jun 232020
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Jun 192020
People don’t change: they unfold.
Jun 152020
Human development has increasingly prolonged childhood and adolescence, now often fifty years or more.
Jun 092020
Until it has the appearance of liberty the prison is not complete.
Jun 082020
As computers become more skilled at imitating human beings, so must we.
Jun 022020
The difficulty with which success imagines failure makes for hard-heartedness, and the ease with which failure imagines success makes for envy.
May 252020
My father’s two fundamental rules for computer programming were Optimize Later and Optimize Never; and this, like so much advice about programming, also goes for life.
May 222020
Just as there are ideas so mad that you must be clever to believe them, so there is behavior so weird that you must be clever to engage in it.
May 202020
Local maxima are the root of all mediocrity.
May 112020
Whoever can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities, and everyone can be made to believe absurdities.