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Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies.
Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.
“The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers,” her mother had once told her. “But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.”
Humans tried to develop intelligent machines as secondary reflex systems, turning over primary decisions to mechanical servants. Gradually, though, the creators did not leave enough to do for themselves; they began to feel alienated, dehumanized, and even manipulated. Eventually humans became little more than decisionless robots themselves, left without an understanding of their natural existence.
“When he visited Earth, Tlaloc realized how the human race had gone stagnant, how people had become so dependent on machines that they had nothing left but apathy. Their goals were gone, their drive, their passion. When they should have had nothing to do but unleash their creative impulses, they were too lazy to perform even the work of the imagination.”
There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be.
Everything in the universe contains flaws, ourselves included. Even God does not attempt perfection in His creations. Only mankind has such foolish arrogance.
Only those with narrow minds fail to see that the definition of Impossible is ‘Lack of imagination and incentive.’
Religion, time and time again, brings down empires, rotting them from within.
All men are not created equal, and that is the root of social unrest.
Mind rules the universe. We must make certain it is the Human mind, rather than the Machine version.
Each human being is a time machine.
If the human race wept for all those who had fallen, they would be paralyzed in an unending state of grief.
As if to balance the pain and suffering, War has also been the breeding ground for some of our greatest dreams and accomplishments.
Science: The creation of dilemmas by the solution of mysteries.
Religion, often considered a divisive force among peoples, is also capable of holding together what might otherwise fall asunder.
Of all human wars in history, a jihad is the most passionate, conquering worlds and civilizations, mowing down everything in its path.”
PSYCHOLOGY: The science of inventing words for things that do not exist.
Often people die because they are too cowardly to live.
The God of Science can be an unkind deity.
Learn from the past—don’t wear it like a yoke around your neck.
Is there an upper limit to the intelligence of machines, and a lower limit to the stupidity of humans?
With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.
Is a religion real if it costs nothing and carries no risk?
Every large-scale movement—political, religious, or military—hinges upon epochal events.
behavior. It is a human quality to survive by intelligence—as individuals and as a species.
“We must declare a crusade against the machines, a holy war—a jihad, in the name of my murdered son Manion. It must be…Manion Butler’s Jihad.”
