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Joseph Conrad
“The mind of man is capable of anything.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Edward Abbey
“To aid and abet in the destruction of a single species or in the extermination of a single tribe is to commit a crime against God, a mortal sin against Mother Nature. Better by far to sacrifice in some degree the interests of mechanical civilization, curtail our gluttonous appetite for things, ever more things, learn to moderate our needs, and most important, and not difficult, learn to control, limit and gradually reduce our human numbers. We humans swarm over the planet like a plague of locusts, multiplying and devouring. There is no justice, sense or decency in this mindless global breeding spree, this obscene anthropoid fecundity, this industrialized mass production of babies and bodies, ever more bodies and babies. The man-centered view of the world in anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, antinature, antilife, and--antihuman.”
Edward Abbey, Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Ajay Agrawal
“Before machine learning, multivariate regression provided an efficient way to condition on multiple things, without the need to calculate dozens, hundreds, or thousands of conditional averages. Regression takes the data and tries to find the result that minimizes prediction mistakes, maximizing what is called “goodness of fit.”
Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Tracy Chevalier
“of all the cities he had been to—Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City—San Francisco was by far the worst.”
Tracy Chevalier, At the Edge of the Orchard

Aravind Adiga
“sardonic, seriocomic saga of the plight of India's poor.”
Aravind Adiga

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