Piero Scaruffi > Quotes

“Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help their government remain the world's superpower. All the scientists who worked in and for Germany in the 1930s lived to regret that they directly helped a sociopath like Hitler harm millions of people. Let us not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all time are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all time. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics, instead, are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious?

We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?”
― Piero Scaruffi

“A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences”
― Piero Scaruffi

“The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.”
― Piero Scaruffi

“Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us”
― Piero Scaruffi

“As a side note to this bibliography, Wikipedia turned out to be the worst possible source. Most of its articles are simply press releases from public-relationship departments, with all the omissions and distortions that they deem appropriate for their business strategies. On the other hand, vintage magazines and newspapers were an invaluable source of information and analysis. If websites like Wikipedia are going to replace the magazines and newspapers of the past, the loss to scholarship will be colossal: the most persistent marketing department (or fan) will decide what information will be available to future generations.”
― Piero Scaruffi, A History of Silicon Valley - Almost a 3rd Edition

“I swam to shore, therefore i am”
― Piero Scaruffi, Synthesis