Quotes

"In the future, a trillion times a trillion dollars will be spent on making antimatter to travel to other star systems"

Elon Musk

"The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish"

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, page 12

"Legends, myths, gods and religions appeared for the first time with the Cognitive Revolution."

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, page 31

"You don't need a history to have a future"

Dr. Emil Harting, Bloodshot (2020)

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"

J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita after the Trinity test

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Arthur C. Clarke

"There is no God. There is no Fate."

Stephen Hawking

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"

Friedrich Nietzsche, famously quoted by Viktor Frankl

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems"

James Clear, Atomic Habits
  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Isaac Asimov, Three Laws of Robotics