David Sussillo

“Because a neuron connects to as many as ten thousand more and receives connections from as many as ten thousand others, the you of right now is a never-ceasing, always-raging electrical storm of unfathomable complexity.”
― David Sussillo, Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind

“She ain’t no Helen Lane. And second, everybody always say Henrietta Lacks had four children. That ain’t right, she had five children. My sister died and there’s no leavin her out of the book. I know you gotta tell all the Lacks story and there’ll be good and bad in that cause of my brothers. You gonna learn all that, I don’t care. The thing I care about is, you gotta find out what happened to my mother and my sister, cause I need to know.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Deborah thinks it was more than that. “That evil woman Ethel taught him hate,” she said. “Beat every drop of it into his little body—put the hate of a murderer into him.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Google may be very good at operations, but it’s objectively terrible at innovation.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It