Hello World Quotes

“ignorance and ridicule are the refuge of small minds.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“Science allows us to see beyond the limitation of our senses, teaching us we should not trust our eyes.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“Funny, though, how someone so social in a virtual sense can be so closed off physically.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“You assume you’re alone. And you are alone because you fail to hear the call of life around you.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“I say the first name that comes into my head. “Phil.” Sorry”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“but to see the stars is a reward in itself. They’re beautiful—unmoved by a petty war on a puny planet.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“Chocolate mud cake,” she says”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“Think about it. Look at what it took for intelligence to emerge in Nature. Today is Monday. If the 3.8 billion years life has thrived on Earth equated to 38 days, then for over a month all we had around here were microbes. “Complex, multicellular life arose last Wednesday. Dinosaurs came in on Friday. Sometime this morning, around 1am, a meteor struck and the best part of an entire phylogenetic clade was pushed to extinction. Those few avian dinosaurs that did survive went on to supply us with deep fried chicken and scrambled eggs.” I can’t help but smile at Avika’s compressed take on the history of life on Earth. “Mammals have been around at least since Sunday, but they were little more than rodents most of the time. That rock from space cleared out vast swathes of the ecosystem, and mammals rushed to fill the gap. “Every multicellular creature has some degree of intelligence, or at least instinct, but it wasn’t until some point in the last hour that the wisest of men, Homo sapiens arose, and yet even then, intelligence was little more than a desperate struggle for survival. “For the last seven minutes, or roughly two hundred thousand years, our intelligence extended little further than chipping at rocks to make stone knives. “In the last thirty seconds, we’ve been on a bender. We’ve built pyramids, sailed the oceans and landed on the Moon!” I say, “So your point is, human intelligence is the pinnacle of evolution?” “Oh, no. Not at all. There’s plenty of intelligence in the animal kingdom, especially among mammals, birds and cephalopods, but it took 3.8 billion years before intelligence could exploit its own ingenuity and blossom in its own right. “If all our intellectual accomplishments are the result of the last thirty seconds, then perhaps creating artificial intelligence isn’t quite as easy as busting out some Perl scripts.” I”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“We can build a learning machine, but it can never learn anything beyond facts. It can never experience life. It simply doesn’t have the innate drive we naturally share.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“I think it’s impossible to write an artificially intelligent computer program. Intelligence has to emerge on its own.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“The stars don’t reveal our future, but they do tell us where we came from. We are their future. We are the children of the stars.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“Telling lies has always been the easiest way to control people—that’s true for kids and adults.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“We live and die, but in someways we were always dead and always will be. Life itself is a glitch, the flicker of a candle, a brief sojourn in a strange land.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“Gravity is the game changer.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“The horror of death came not in the slash of a knife or a splash of blood, it came from knowing that life could be cut down as easily as plucking a flower from a field. One moment, there was a glimmer in someone’s eyes, the next, a corpse with no more hope for tomorrow than a rock.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“Questions are good. Questions allow us to see the beauty of life. Never stop asking questions.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“There is much to learn, but there is that which no one can teach, that which each must discover for themselves.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World

“As much as I like Facebook, I find Twitter is more open for collaboration and discussion.”
― Peter Cawdron, Hello World