“What will kill us first, artificial intelligence or natural stupidity?’–Habib Haddad
I’m not sure if it matters whether we give a damn. Time will tell. No further comment necessary.
Cosmic Quote #101
September 14, 2018 by 3 Comments
Cosmic Quote #100
July 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”–Thomas Jefferson
“If you live to one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”–George Burns
Wow. It only took me six years and two months to count to 100. Just think, in dog years, this blog is middle-aged.
Cosmic Quote #42A–Towel Day (redux)
May 25, 2018 by 6 Comments
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”–Douglas Adams
One deadline you absolutely can’t miss is Towel Day. Keep your towel handy and don’t panic.
Cosmic Quote #99
April 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”–Hunter S. Thompson
And when their names get weird–or funny–they go in the first round of the NFL draft. Just ask Barkevious Mingo, Jadeveon Clowney, and Ha-Ha Clinton Dix. They were all first rounders, and all top performers in the annual poll of funniest names in the NFL draft. Oh, yeah. Don’t forget: the 6th annual edition of that venerated tradition will appear on Monday of next week. Same time, same channel.
Cosmic Quote #98: R.I.P. Stephen Hawking
March 18, 2018 by 2 Comments
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”–Stephen Hawking
Hawking–his sense of humor was his secret to survival
Boy, can I ever relate to that philosophy. It’s what underlies this blog. It’s what keeps me going. It has kept my marriage alive for 40 years–so far. Forget all his cosmic stuff–that quote is the best part of his legacy.
Cosmic Quote #97: R.I.P. Ursula Le Guin
January 24, 2018 by Leave a Comment
“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”–Ursula K. Le Guin
Photo© Marian Wood Kolisch
I only ever read a single Ursula Le Guin book. But it was the only one I ever really needed. The Lathe of Heaven remains–now and forever–my favorite Science Fiction novel of all time. It is must reading for anyone seriously interested in how things interact in our complex world, and what that might mean for our future. Systems thinking, unintended consequences, and “think globally, act locally,” resound as themes throughout. Read it.
Cosmic Quote #96
January 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
“One human data is worth a billion mice.”–Bioviva CEO, Elizabeth Parrish**
So what about goldfish data? And don’t even ask about the mice’s point of view on human data. All they care about is the cheese.
**Don’t look for this quote anywhere else on the internet–yet. It comes directly from my interview with Parrish that will air on the next Seeking Delphi™ podcast, and appear in the March issue of Age of Robots.
Cosmic Quotes #95
January 2, 2018 by Leave a Comment
“Ring out the false; ring in the true.”–Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happy belated New Year. Let your resolution be to ring in the true. I’ll take care of the rest.
Cosmic Quote #94
December 25, 2017 by Leave a Comment
“Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.”–Gary Allan
Santa would never dare mess with my lawyer. And I had naughty nailed decades ago. Naughty or nice, enjoy the holiday season. In a few days, we return to reality.
Cosmic Quote #93
December 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
“We view ourselves as separate from the cosmos, and separate from each other. The truth is, we are a continuum. One line of code in an enormously complex computational system.”–Gray Scott
Let’s just hope that code isn’t corrupt. I have my doubts.
