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“For an algorithm, an error is a flaw to be corrected; for a person, however, an error can be a catalyst for profound change.”
― Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas: Lettre encyclique sur la protection de la personne humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle

“Man creates. the machine duplicates. In each case a different principle is appealed to, a different characteristic, called into being. To create is to cause to exist a thing that is unique. To duplicate is to cause to exist a thing that is uniform.”
― Brian Keeble, Art For Whom and For What?

“What has been made all but impossible by the industrial system is that men and women can attain a livelihood by doing what is both aesthetically and morally sound and economically and practically valid, by a means that allows them both intellectual and spiritual responsibility.”
― Brian Keeble, Art For Whom and For What?

“If Tolkien has a message, it is simple. Modern life tends to blind us to the true value of things - call it enchantment, if you will. Fantasy is a way to 'clean our windows' so we can see things as they are, he said, 'freed from the drab blur of triteness or familiarity - from possessiveness'.”
― John Garth, The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth