Orts #926
The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.
-- Niels Bohr (1885-1962), about 1927
God is dead: but considering the state the species of Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Once the computers get control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. . . . If we’re lucky, the [machines] might decide to keep us as pets.
-- Marvin Minsky, mathematician and computer scientist at M.I.T and a “founding father of artificial intelligence”, in Life magazine, November 1970
“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?”
“Supposing it didn't,” said Pooh after careful thought.
Piglet was comforted by this.
A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, chapter 8
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- relevant history of impeachment in the US -
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opinion/impeachment-andrew-johnson.html