“Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.”
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“ومتى تعلق إنسان بإنسان آخر فهو لا يرى فيه إلا حسناته وخيره”
― آنّا كارنينا
― آنّا كارنينا
“Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.”
― Twelve Years a Slave
― Twelve Years a Slave
“the new wave of artificial intelligence does not actually bring us intelligence but instead a critical component of intelligence—prediction.”
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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