Charlie

“Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“the new wave of artificial intelligence does not actually bring us intelligence but instead a critical component of intelligence—prediction.”
― ajay agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

“Ugliness was the chance to make beautiful. Sadness was the chance to make glad.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna: An Inspirational True Story and Christian Memoir of Faith and Innocence

“One year from now, a decade, a century, half a millennium, will things be different? Dare we dream it? When we are seen for ourselves, not just as the conduit of progeny, heirs, lineage, not just as beautiful objects to be protected, inspected, appreciated, but for who we are at the core . . .”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice