Prospero, Duke of Milan

What is there more to say?

#noquotes #commonsense #reflections

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Portrait image of a massive solar filament looping up from the surface of the Sun as it snapped apart, releasing a massive amount of energy.

#PPOD: Toward the middle of 2012, a long-standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space, producing an energetic coronal mass ejection. The filament had been held up for days by the Sun's ever-changing magnetic field, and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Credit: NASA's GSFC, SDO 🧪 🔭

Listening to The Call of the Big Baboo from Laurent Garnier — was my generation the origin of this mess or was it foresight?

#music #noquotes #reflections

Mark these words.

Congratulations to @jimmykimmel.com on his triumphant return!
Last night he was pitch-perfect. Inspirational, self-reflective, gracious to his haters, championing the 1st Amendment & most importantly: FUNNY.

(Shout-out to Robert DeNiro as the mob-boss head of the FCC)😆

It was amazing!

Time is precious. Time is money. Time is wisdom.

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

'On the beach' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #WomensArt #August

4/ “It is a good idea to question the error rate of an expert's procedure. Do not question his procedure, only his confidence.”

3/ “The inequity comes when someone perceives as being marginally better gets the whole pie.”

2/ On forecasting: “What matters is not how often you are right, but how large your cumulative errors are.”

A few corrosive quotes from “The Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb. 1/ “Economics is the most insular of fields; it is the one that quotes least outside itself.” 2/ On forecasting: “What matters is not how often you are right, but how large your cumulative errors are.” 3/ “The inequity comes when someone perceives as being marginally better gets the whole pie.” 4/ “It is a good idea to question the error rate of an expert's procedure. Do not question his procedure, only his confidence.” #quotes #economics #reflections

A few corrosive quotes from “The Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb.

1/ “Economics is the most insular of fields; it is the one that quotes least outside itself.”

#quotes #economics #reflections

“You don’t habituate to learning because learning by definition is change.” — Look Again by Tali Sharon and Cass R. Sunstein.

Tibor Scitovsky: “Pleasure results from incomplete and intermittent satisfaction of desires.” — not to forget!

#quotes #economists #reflections

After a long silence, here is a quote from Lao Tzu: « Do not seek revenge! Sit by the river and soon you will see the corpse of your offender float by. »

#quotes #philosophy #reflections

From “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin:

“What is it that people beg for, dream about, torment themselves for? They want someone to tell them, once and for all, what happiness is — and then to bind them to that happiness with a chain. The ancient dream of paradise…”

#quotes #religion #reflections

3 — “Remember the scene: a blue hill, a cross, a crowd. Some are up on top, bespattered with blood, nailing the body on the cross; others are below, bespattered with tears, looking on. Does it not strike you that those above play the most difficult role, the most important role?”

2 — “This Christian, all-mercyfull God — the one who slowly roasts in the fires of Hell all those who rebel against him — is he not to be called the executioner? […] But, all this notwithstanding, you see, this is still the God who has been worshipped for centuries as the God of love. Absurd? No.”

From “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin:

1 — “A true algebraic love of mankind will inevitably be inhuman, and the inevitable sign of the truth is its cruelty.”

#quotes #religion #reflections

6 — “We are living in an age when thinking itself is no longer a personal activity but a collective one.”

5 — “Does committing a piece of work to the digital format mean turning it over to the hive mind to do with it as it please?”

4 — “[Large language models] are a product of Industrial Age and reinforce its values. They do not create, they model.”

3 — “The less involved and aware we are of the way our technologies are programmed and program themselves, the more narrow our choices will become.”

2 — “The question should not be about how humanely our technologies program human beings, but about how well human beings can program technology.”

From “Program or be programmed” by Douglas Rushkoff:

1 — “We shape our technologies at the moment of their conception, but from that point forward they shape us.”

#quotes #technology #reflections

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom — Isaac Asimov

#quotes #science #reflections

Luck favours the prepared — Louis Pasteur.

« You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave. »