“To become good at anything you have to know how to apply basic principles. To become great at it, you have to know when to violate those principles.”
― Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
― Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
“the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing.. but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night. Allen”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, that I didn't know who I was...I was far away from home haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost...I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then that strange afternoon. But I had to get going and stop moaning, so I picked up my bag, said so long to the old hotelkeeper sitting by his spittoon, and went to eat.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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