Daniel Trócoli

“Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations. Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag. —Diane Ackerman”
― Ray Kurzweil, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

“We failed to realize that what makes sense for the asynchronous, relatively anonymous interactions of the Internet might not work as well inside the face-to-face, politically charged, acoustically noisy confines of an open-plan office. Instead of distinguishing between online and in-person interaction, we used the lessons of one to inform our thinking about the other.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“We are a pattern that changes slowly but has stability and continuity, even though the stuff constituting the pattern changes quickly.”
― Ray Kurzweil, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

“A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.”
― Vaclav Smil, Energy: A Beginner's Guide