“We have no idea what we don't know. Or what we'll eventually learn, or what might be true despite our perpetual inability to comprehend what the truth is. It's impossible to understand the world of today until today has become tomorrow.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”— Martin Luther King Jr., parade.com
“I have to settle down? I don't really have any plans to do that. Apart from making sure my retirement and finances are in order for the future, I don't plan. Whatever will be will be.”— Kristin Addis, traveltrolley.co.uk
“You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“But though I had an anchor, I did not think to bring a compass.”— Alex R. Jones, narrativemagazine.com
“So began the first mistake of my life. I would fail not because I did not plan, but because my planning was willful delusion, a failure to see what I should see.”— Alex R. Jones, narrativemagazine.com
“Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never ha…”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“The things we do when we expect our lives to continue are naturally and properly different than the things we might do if we expected them to end abruptly. We go easy on the lard and tobacco, smile dutifully at yet another of our supervisor's witless jokes, read books like this one when we could be…”— Daniel Gilbert, amazon.com
“The simulation argument is appealing, in part, because it gives atheists a way to talk about spirituality. The idea that we’re living in only a part of reality, with the whole permanently beyond our reach, can be a source of awe. About our simulators, one can ask the same questions one asks about Go…”— Joshua Rothman, newyorker.com
“Hallmarks of disruptive innovators: introduced by an 'outsider,' / less expensive than existing products/ targeting underserved or new markets/ initially inferior to existing products/ advanced by an enabling technology.”— The New York Times, nytimes.com
“...the likely future for North America is that of a coherent economic unit where the United States, Canada, and Mexico band together to make major investments in customized robot production and then use these investments to dominate global manufacturing.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“The TSA is experimenting with software that tries to detect, by scanning body language, which plane passengers have hostile intentions.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“As Pole's computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a 'pregnancy prediction' score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“An intelligent machine might come up with a new theory of cosmology, and perhaps no human will be able to understand or articulate that theory. Maybe it will refer to non-visualizable dimensions of space or nonintuitive understandings of time. The machine will tell us that the theory makes good pred…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com