Words & Letters
A few years ago, If I told you that you could just think of an idea and a computer could turn that into a photo-realistic image you’d call it science fiction. We’ve all seen this stuff now: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and others. There are so many headlines about the computers taking creative jobs and […]
I’ve been mildly obsessed with Dune since I read the original trilogy back in 2017. I saw the Sting movie, yes. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t hit me like the books. I haven’t read the fourth, fifth and sixth books. At this point, I’m more worried the luster will fade. I should read them, […]
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
“Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.” ― Karl Germain
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” ― Ernest Hemingway
“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” ― Robert Heinlein
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.” ― Malcolm Gladwell
“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” – Alan Kay
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov