Aaron Hatfield

“The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“The idea that technology alone can solve social and political problems is a dangerous delusion. But the idea that they can be solved without technology is also wrongheaded.”
― Mustafa Suleyman, The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future

“because that all which you forsake is not worthy to be compared with a little of that I am seeking to enjoy; and if you would go along with me, and hold it, you shall fare as I myself; for there, where I go, is enough and to spare. Come away, and prove my words.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods