Michelle

“Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.”
― Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“Your synapses store all your knowledge and skills as roughly 100 terabytes’ worth of information, while your DNA stores merely about a gigabyte, barely enough to store a single movie download.”
― Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“But what is to be completed if the direct and sole vocation of each wise guy is babble, this is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground