Kevin

“What is a good man’s role? To offer himself to fate. It is a great consolation to be moved along with the universe. Whatever it is that ordered us so to live and so to die, it binds the divine beings by the same necessity. An inevitable course conveys the human and the divine alike. It was the author and ruler of the world who wrote the decrees of fate, but he follows them himself.”
― Anthony A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

“Ten years ago, it was rare to find a restaurant that had a social media strategy; now, it’s hard to find one that doesn’t. Within a few years, it will be just as hard to find a company without an AI strategy. Companies that aren’t working toward developing an AI strategy today are likely to fare as well as companies that decided not to pursue a web strategy in 2002 or a mobile strategy in 2008. It’s absolutely required if you want to compete in the market.”
― Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger, Real World AI : A Practical Guide for Responsible Machine Learning

“Ellwood smiled, although the words stabbed a little. Gaunt was the only person around whom Ellwood allowed himself to talk about things like souls.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“But as a human being, I have no predefined nature at all. I create that nature through what I choose to do. Of course I may be influenced by my biology, or by aspects of my culture and personal background, but none of this adds up to a complete blueprint for producing me. I am always one step ahead of myself, making myself up as I go along. Sartre put this principle into a three-word slogan, which for him defined existentialism: ‘Existence precedes essence’. What this formula gains in brevity it loses in comprehensibility. But roughly it means that, having found myself thrown into the world, I go on to create my own definition (or nature, or essence), in a way that never happens with other objects or life forms. You might think you have defined me by some label, but you are wrong, for I am always a work in progress. I create myself constantly through action, and this is so fundamental to my”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others