Chris

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

“When one of us says, “Look, there's nothing out there,” what we are really saying is, “I cannot see.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert

“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Based on the above analyses, it is reasonable to expect the hardware that can emulate human-brain functionality to be available for approximately one thousand dollars by around 2020. As we will discuss in chapter 4, the software that will replicate that functionality will take about a decade longer. However, the exponential growth of the price-performance, capacity, and speed of our hardware technology will continue during that period, so by 2030 it will take a village of human brains (around one thousand) to match a thousand dollars’ worth of computing. By 2050, one thousand dollars of computing will exceed the processing power of all human brains on Earth. Of course, this figure includes those brains still using only biological neurons.”
― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology