J.J.

“My expertise in sadness is hard-earned. But I realize more and more that it is a gift. Living with sadness”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden

“Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can be forecast, a few decades into the future. AI in this sense is unfalsifiable and thus--according to the accepted rules of the scientific method--unscientific.”
― Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

“The universe is alive and connected, these moments tell us. There are dimensions of existence you never could have imagined before. Quantum particles inexplicably flip together, even though they are separated by vast differences of time and space. Somehow the world is alive and communicating with itself. There is some interconnecting animating force, and we are awash in that force, which we with our paltry vocabulary call love. The”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars