"Vision beats method."
"Ambitious minds are offended at the very existence of superior intellect, believing somehow its presence prevents them from unfolding their own potential. This will lead them to instinctively attack with insult, where they actually have a chance to make social progress and widen their perspective. The difference between physical muscles and intellectual muscles is that those who merely possess a primitive kind of wit have no problem challenging actual thinkers, while they cower from their insolence at the threat of those who are vastly physically superior. This lack of academic integrity and ready submission to the primitive laws of the street effectively shows which class of people they belong to."
Whatever I think, others will be thinking the moment I envision it or put it to words.
I worked for fools, for idiotic means. I spend my life watching in amazement the delusions human beings wrap themselves in. It was discouraging. If ever a more intelligent species evolves, or intelligent lifeforms visit us, I want that recorded for posterity. Most of my life I was sad for this reason.
"Genius, while the individual capabilities may be inborn, seems to require a combination of adversity, encouragement and opportunity to succeed."
"Even if only one percent of what is recorded about Daedalus is true, he is by far the greatest inventor of all times. Yet, all his accomplishment only served dictators. The story of the escape from the horrific labyrinth of his own inventioned is always thought of as a parable about youthful foolhardiness or even hubris, but Ikaros was never the focal point of the tale. He was imprisoned with his father, because of his father, and the further he climbed from the ground, the further he removed himself from the awful feeling of incarceration. The death of Ikaros was the consequence, the punishment if you will, for a life of servitude chosen by his father. In the end his ingenuity could only save Daedalus himself, a lesson upon which the genius may have realized two things: this was always the case. And if it is the case, it may not matter all that much."
Only Giordano Bruno ever impressed me.
"The ability to marvel is the premise of asking the questions relevant for novel investigation. The saddest thing, in my opion, about the age of science is the way it has spawned hordes of followers in the manner of cult or religion. In doing so they violate the first rule of science, never to take anything for granted."
"Objectively, nothing matters."
"The greatest and possibly the most overlooked challenge mankind faces is the catastrophic loss of knowledge and experience through the natural falling away of generations. Tradition, education and written records are our most efficient means of preservation of human experience, of wisdom and scientific knowledge, but as a method of transferring information from one mind to another these are crude, almost arcane. Even with the emergence of the computer and androids the loss of data between generations hampers progress far more than language confusion, and even very simple methods to bridge this gap would produce infinitely more effect on human and societal evolution than The Universal Translator."