“‘You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.’
Terence McKenna”
— http://amiquote.tumblr.com/post/41188748053/if-things-can-be-seen-that-differently-how
posted on 26.01.13
We search for truth and meaning, for love, for transcendence, for peace, for ourselves. To be human is to be a searcher. In its highest form, a search has no well-defined object. It’s open-ended, an act of exploration that takes us out into the world, beyond the self, in order to know the world, and the self, more fully.
posted on 26.01.13
“The future I see [as] very rosy if you are a cyborg, or if you are an artificial intelligence machine. If you are a human, well, your time’s up.” Kevin Warwick”
posted on 31.08.12
“Like in jazz, we are guided by a thematic problem, develop material statement by statement, explore tangential ideas, and readily adapt to mistakes and unexpected results”.”
— http://www.creativitypost.com/arts/portrait_of_a_scientist_as_a_jazz_musician#
posted on 27.04.12
“Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves.”
— Amber Case”
— http://amiquote.tumblr.com/post/20867917010/memories-are-becoming-hyperlinks-to-information
posted on 12.04.12
“In the future, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it may be that the most important things historians will see are not technological advancements or the Internet, but the fact that for the first time a substantial and rapidly growing number of people had choices.” Peter Drucker”
posted on 21.11.11
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