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“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!”
― Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Clarity is what a person’s psychology is always endeavouring to return to. Innate clarity and resilience are always shining a beacon, even when a person seems hopelessly lost…”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“100% of our feeling is arising from THOUGHT in the moment”)”
― Jamie Smart, Clarity: Clear Mind, Better Performance, Bigger Results

“If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.

(Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night)”
― Aaron Sorkin

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
― Albert Einstein

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
― Lao Tzu

“Светът е пълен с разни неща и наистина има нужда някой да ги потърси и намери. Именно това правят нещотърсачите.”
― Астрид Линдгрен, Pippi Longstocking

“Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I’m encouraging mine to go into professions that machines are currently bad at, and therefore seem unlikely to get automated in the near future. Recent forecasts for when various jobs will get taken over by machines identify several useful questions to ask about a career before deciding to educate oneself for it. 48 For example: • Does it require interacting with people and using social intelligence? • Does it involve creativity and coming up with clever solutions? • Does it require working in an unpredictable environment?”
― Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“The DQN AI system of Google DeepMind can accomplish a slightly broader range of goals: it can play dozens of different vintage Atari computer games at human level or better. In contrast, human intelligence is thus far uniquely broad, able to master a dazzling panoply of skills.
A healthy child given enough training time can get fairly good not only at any game, but also at any language, sport or vocation. Comparing the intelligence of humans and machines today, we humans win hands-down on breadth, while machines outperform us in a small but growing number of narrow domains, as illustrated in figure 2.1. The holy grail AI research is to build “general AI” (better known as artificial general intelligence, AGI) that is maximally broad: able to accomplish virtually any goal, including learning.”
― Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“a hallmark of a living system is that it maintains or reduces its entropy by increasing the entropy around it. In other words, the second law of thermodynamics has a life loophole: although the total entropy must increase, it’s allowed to decrease in some places as long as it increases even more elsewhere. So life maintains or increases its complexity by making its environment messier.”
― Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“Но какво е животът – повтори си и този път лисичето – освен редуване на срещи и раздели!…”
― Борис Априлов, Лиско при квадратните същества

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

“Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut