“Short is the time which each of us has to live”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“—A new generation is growing up in our midst, a generation actuated by new ideas and new principles. It is serious and enthusiastic for these new ideas and its enthusiasm, even when it is misdirected, is, I believe, in the main sincere. But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“In focusing on faith not cognition”
― The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
― The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
“Artificial intelligence takes you away from your own trip. What you want to do is look at the wheels of the machine and if you like them, have fun.”
― The Soul of a New Machine
― The Soul of a New Machine
“People young and old will puzzle over what it felt like for their parents and grandparents”
― The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
― The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
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