SebastiAn Quotes
The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.
Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.
The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.
I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.
We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.
I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette.
A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.
The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain, " one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".
He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.
If you lay down and act like a doormat... then you are sure to get walked on.
The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough
Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.
Love is a funny thing. The ones we love don't always love us back.
You can be with the 'truth' or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the 'truth'. Those who are with the 'truth' are a minority, whom you may call Utopians.
The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.
How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?
I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.
If the bro army and sky army broke into war, I would die from the chose to fight for.
You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.
It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots”.
Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.
I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.
Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world.
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.
Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me feel good.'
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.
I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.
Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.
I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.
