"Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the last thing he would do is create categories; the avowed purpose of Zen is to eliminate categories! The true Zen-man holds to the old Taoist proverb, Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."

“Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.”

“We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.”

“The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.”

Source : Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.3, Harper Collins

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”

“Flidais clapped her hands in delight. "Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!" That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that expression in a long, long time. I refrained from telling her that the modern expression would be "he had a cow", because I liked the original better. "Yes, the kine he nearly shat would have fed several clans.”

“I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood”

“... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?”