Edward Torrens-Cundle

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“Therefore, a computer program will be inferior to human beings if it can be shown that humans know something which the program cannot know.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary