Two thoughts from Vance Packard "Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done." “The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.”

“We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.” ~Norbert Wiener

"I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine." ~Danny Hillis

Two thoughts from Yukio Mishima "There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all." “Man always finds the omens he wants.”

"AI is amplified intelligence, not artificial intelligence...That just means the smarter you are, the smarter the AI is." ~@balajis

"We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast." ~Clay Shirky

Two thoughts from Christopher Isherwood "By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress." "Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent."

As Nietzsche also provocatively said: "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago." ~C. S. Lewis

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." ~Attributed to Charles Darwin