Japhy Grant

“When we suffer we think that the other person has caused our suffering. “She doesn’t love me. So why do I have to love her?” Our natural tendency is to want to punish the other person. And the way we do that is to show her that “I can survive very well without you.” This is an indirect way of saying: “I don’t need you.” But that’s not true love. Many of us have made that mistake. I also have made that mistake. But we learn. In fact, when we suffer we do need the other person. That’s the commitment we made in the beginning of our relationship.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

“And where did logic belong? To psychology or to computer science? Surely not just to philosophy.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Or, to put it in a slightly different way: there is always a fundamental distinction between the way one relates to friends, family, neighbourhood, people and places that we actually know directly, and the way one relates to empires, nations and metropolises, phenomena that exist largely, or at least most of the time, in our heads.”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“The demon replaces chance with purpose. It uses information to reduce entropy.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood