Bui Quan

“prevailing event today is the loss of individuation qua pauperization (cognitive impoverishment) and the growth of information to the detriment of knowledge. It is what has been analyzed, for example, as “cognitive overflow syndrome,” which, rather than facilitating decision-making (the synthesis that must follow from the analytic acquisition of knowledge), paralyzes it: information is not transformed into knowledge or savoir-faire but into an accumulation of hard data.”
― Bernard Stiegler, The Re-Enchantment of the World: The Value of Spirit Against Industrial Populism

“It's no wonder we worry about the end of the world. Worlds end all the time.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“The most impactful thing you can do with power is almost always to give it away.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“I am thoughtful—full of thoughts, all the time, inescapably, exhaustingly. But I am also mindless—acting in accordance with default settings I neither understand nor examine.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed