Nathan

“If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice and not a hope.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Living: A Guide to Mindfulness, Personal Growth, and Peace with Transformative Meditations for Understanding Life's Deepest Questions and Experiencing Happiness and Freedom

“Homo sapiens is just not built for satisfaction. Human happiness depends less on objective condition and more on our own expectations. Expectations, however, tend to adapt to conditions, including to the condition of other people. When things improve, expectations balloon, and consequently even dramatic improvement in conditions might leave us as dissatisfied as before.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“The purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“The danger is that if we invest too much in developing AI and too little in developing human consciousness, the very sophisticated artificial intelligence of computers might only serve to empower the natural stupidity of humans.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century