David Michael > David's Quotes

“I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.”
― Ada Lovelace

“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The whole point of civilization is that we exceed the limits of nature, you tedious little primitives.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

“Potentially the end result would be something smarter and more capable than the simple sum total of human and machine combined.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time