Adrian Panghe

“The tendency to create powerful things with unintended consequences started not with the invention of the steam engine or AI but with the invention of religion. Prophets and theologians have summoned powerful spirits that were supposed to bring love and joy but occasionally ended up flooding the world with blood.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.”
― Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci

“Above all, Leonardo’s relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.”
― Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci

“For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.”
― Philip Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction