Tanner Duve

“By any objective standard, the theory of computational complexity ranks as one of the greatest intellectual achievements of humankind -- along with fire, the wheel, and computability theory.”
― Scott Aaronson, Quantum Computing Since Democritus

“Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver, and maintainer of balance.”
― Terence McKenna

“The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

“The Sage falls asleep not because he ought to
Nor even because he wants to
But because he is sleepy.”
― Raymond M. Smullyan, The Tao Is Silent: A Whimsical and Sophisticated Guide to Eastern Philosophy and Inner Serenity