"Anthropomorphizing the algorithm doesn’t make it smarter — it makes you dumber. " [Brad de Long, 1960-]

"The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking." [Jose Mujica, 1935-2025]

Memo to presidential candidate: "There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible and wrong" (H. L. Mencken, 1880-1956).

"You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." [Navajo proverb]

RIP Francoise Hardy youtube.com/watch?v=4e2yHe2D…

“A man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them” (Albert Camus).

"Uncertainty.. is uneasy" (David Hume, 1711-76).

A nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors" (Karl Deutsch, 1912-92).

"Reality is a child which cannot survive without its nurse, illusion" (Arthur Eddington, 1882-1944).

"If you are not confused, you don’t understand anything" (Brian Arthur, 1945-)

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects" (Will Rogers, 1879-1935).

"When you’re young, you’ve got to believe things will be simple" (Christof Koch, 1956-).

"I try to understand the ocean beneath the thin layer of ice that is civilization. There's miles and miles of deep ocean, of darkness and barbarism. And I know the ice can break easily. [Werner Herzog, 1942-]]

“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful” (Ann Landers).

"Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything" (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916).

“Intelligence is the most dangerous thing in the universe” (Erik Hoel, 1988-).

"Philosophy is not the 'natural' successor of tragedy but, if anything, of comedy. It is a kind of comedy without the humour." (Raymond Geuss, 1946-).

According to musician Nick Cave, curiosity and humility are the key to a fulfilling live - mailchi.mp/themarginalian/ch…

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist" (Hannah Arendt, 1906-75).