Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Lily Tomlin: Leading cause of stress
“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.” —Lily Tomlin.
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Tom Ryan: Daily prayers
“In my daily prayers, I name about ten people I’d like to send blessings to: five whom I love and another five whom I might not even like.” —Tom Ryan, Will’s Red Coat: The Story of One Old Dog Who Chose to Live Again.
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Denis O’Hare: Scary stuff
“When you think of Grimms fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. Theyre so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think about five-year-olds reading that stuff. Even Little Red Riding Hood is a really freaky story. Grandma is gobbled up by a wolf, and the wolf is going to eat the girl. That’s scary…
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Bob Geldof: Place in the family structure
“And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.” —Bob Geldof.
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James McAvoy: Distance
“Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It’s the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that’s the real reason that the relationships continue.” —James McAvoy.
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Robert Mueller: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity
“Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.” —Robert Mueller.
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Jane Wagner: Important survival tool
“The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.” —Jane Wagner.
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Ellen DeGeneres: In the beginning
“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.” —Ellen DeGeneres.
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Jane Fonda: No career without them
“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.” —Jane Fonda.
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Lily Tomlin: Always under construction
“The road to success is always under construction.” —Lily Tomlin.
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Simon Sinek: Magic
“A good question should never be wasted. The answer just might be magic.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dolores O’Riordan: Becoming an adult too quickly
“Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good-looking, but my mum was very strict, and she didn’t allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly.” —Dolores O’Riordan.
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Simon Sinek: Leading
“Saying you’re a leader doesn’t make you a leader. Leading makes you a leader.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ariana Grande: Dancing in high heels
“Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.” —Ariana Grande.
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Rostam Batmanglij: Drums
“I guess I have some kind of a visceral connection with drums. I’m looking to create music that people can react to viscerally, and people will respond to viscerally. I think that you can listen to music, to a song you’ve never heard before and not really like it, but also feel like you’re responding…
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Pharrell Williams: Blazing your own path
“‘Entrepreneur ‘just denotes that you recognize that you’re doing things across disciplines and that you’re blazing your own path.” —Pharrell Williams.
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Carol Channing: Laughter and applause
“Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.” —Carol Channing.
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Thomas Kempis: Craft of suffering
“It’s the man who has learnt the craft of suffering who really enjoys peace. He is his own master, and the world lies at his feet; he has Christ for his friend, and heaven for his patrimony.” —Thomas Kempis.
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Samuel L Jackson: American politics
“I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people – because they look like them… That’s American politics, pure and simple.” —Samuel L Jackson.
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Justin Trudeau: Immigration
“The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.” —Justin Trudeau.
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Joseph Addison: Man’s first care
“A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.” —Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719).
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Piet Hein: Experts
“Experts have / their expert fun / ex cathedra / telling one / just how nothing / can be done.” —-Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996).
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Arne Garborg: Cannot be had for money
“For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor;…
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Tom Chatfield: Artificial idiocy
“Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” —Tom Chatfield.
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Bob Marley: Real boyfriend
“A real boyfriend knows his girl like the back of his hand. He knows when she’s mad, sad, aggravated, happy, hurt…because that’s his girl.” —Bob Marley.
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David H Wagner: Carve away and drop the bullshit
“On this path, we are making a bet that underneath all of that, you are big and powerful and good. All of that power, that wisdom, and that excellence is your true nature. All you have to do is carve away and drop the bullshit.” —David H. Wagner, Backbone: The Modern Man’s Ultimate Guide to…
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Liam Hemsworth: Privacy
“I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you’ve asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don’t think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.” —Liam Hemsworth.
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Sylvester Stallone: Build mountains
“If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.” —Sylvester Stallone.
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Geisha Williams: Tough jobs
“Don’t be afraid to take the tough jobs. You’ll develop confidence in dealing with tough issues that will serve you for the rest of your career.” —Geisha Williams.
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Robert John Meehan: Different from winning
“The current reformers do not realize that learning is different from winning. Teachers can have the best game plan but they can’t pick their teams.” —Robert John Meehan.
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Millie Bobby Brown: Deadly serious
“I’m very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I’m like, ‘I want to know the answer.’” —Millie Bobby Brown.
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Steve Polyak: Natural stupidity
“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?” —Steve Polyak.
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Elon Musk: Summoning the demon
“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.” —Elon Musk.
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Nick Bilton: Upheavals
“The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.” — Nick Bilton.
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Elon Musk: Pace close to exponential
“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year timeframe. 10 years at most.”…
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Larry Page: Ultimate version of Google
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we…
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Claude Shannon: Rooting for the machines
“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” —Claude Shannon.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Science and religion
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Horace: Coin new words
“Men ever had, and ever will have leave, / To coin new words well suited to the age, / Words are like leaves, some wither every year, / And every year a younger race succeeds.” —Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE).
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Mary Karr: Dysfunction
“If dysfunction means that a family doesnt work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners – the whole enchilada.” —Mary Karr.
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Satya Nadella: Digitized
“You look at marketing: everything that’s happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that’s happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that’s driven by information technology. It’s no longer discrete.” —Satya Nadella.
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Elon Musk: No hard feelings
“AI doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard feelings.” -– Elon Musk.
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Yoshua Bengio: What’s right and what’s wrong
“I don’t think that any of the human faculties is something inherently inaccessible to computers. I would say that some aspects of humanity are less accessible and creativity of the kind that we appreciate is probably one that is going to be something that’s going to take more time to reach. But maybe even more…
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Douglas William Jerrold: Erath, so kind
“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.” – – -Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist (3 Jan 1803-1857).
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Kevin Kelly: Tell us who we are
“Over the past 60 years, as mechanical processes have replicated behaviors and talents we thought were unique to humans, we’ve had to change our minds about what sets us apart. As we invent more species of AI, we will be forced to surrender more of what is supposedly unique about humans. We’ll spend the next…
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Andrew Ng: Opportunity to thrive
“Much has been written about AI’s potential to reflect both the best and the worst of humanity. For example, we have seen AI providing conversation and comfort to the lonely; we have also seen AI engaging in racial discrimination. Yet the biggest harm that AI is likely to do to individuals in the short term…
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Neil Jacobstein: Human stupidity
“It’s not artificial intelligence I’m worried about, it’s human stupidity.” —Neil Jacobstein.
