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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #3
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Long Earth

  • #5
    Brian  Christian
    “To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.”
    Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

  • #6
    Eliezer Yudkowsky
    “By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
    Eliezer Yudkowsky

  • #7
    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #8
    André Gide
    “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    Andre Gide

  • #9
    Herman Melville
    “As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #10
    Ansel Adams
    “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
    Ansel Adams

  • #11
    Jackson Pollock
    “Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space”
    Jackson Pollock

  • #12
    “Art has a voice - let it speak.”
    Rochelle Carr

  • #13
    Arshile Gorky
    “Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.”
    Arshile Gorky

  • #14
    “But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.”
    Dominique De Menil, The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine



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