Walker

“Climate change is fast, much faster than it seems we have the capacity to recognize and acknowledge; but it is also long, almost longer than we can truly imagine.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“We create a machine with intelligence and self-awareness and push it out into our imperfect world. Devised along generally rational lines, well disposed to others, such a mind soon finds itself in a hurricane of contradictions. We’ve lived with them and the list wearies us. Millions dying of diseases we know how to cure. Millions living in poverty when there’s enough to go around. We degrade the biosphere when we know it’s our only home. We threaten each other with nuclear weapons when we know where it could lead. We love living things but we permit a mass extinction of species. And all the rest – genocide, torture, enslavement, domestic murder, child abuse, school shootings, rape and scores of daily outrages.”
― Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me

“As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you’re not free to choose your desires.”
― Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me

“Living sucks sometimes, but it’s pretty fucking punk to wake up every day, in spite of what’s ahead of me.”
― Gregory Ashe, A Friend in the Fire