The worst thing a divorce does to a person isn’t that it makes all the time you devoted to the relationship feel wasted, but that it steals all the plans you had for the future.
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
Damn. The pro of being with …
Damn. The pro of being with someone for more than half your life is that they know you better than you know yourself. The con of being with someone for more than half your life is that they know you better than you know yourself.
– from Black Buck book by Mateo Askaripour
I love scandals about other people …
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
– from The Picture of Dorian Gray book by Oscar Wilde
I’m a simple man without a …
I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass. Naturally, I don’t know how to make my bosses like me.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
History is a merciless judge. It …
History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.
– from Killers of the Flower Moon book by David Grann
The world changes for men. For …
The world changes for men. For women, it stays pretty much the same.
– from The Women book by Kristin Hannah
I suppose to be truly successful …
I suppose to be truly successful at any pursuit, you have to fall in love with it, surrender to its gravitational pull, allow it to carry you off to that world of giddy sleeplessness.
– from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
If it looks too good to …
If it looks too good to be true, it is. There is no free lunch. Not ever.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy …
Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
AI is far deeper and more …
AI is far deeper and more powerful than just another technology. The risk isn’t in overhyping it; it’s rather in missing the magnitude of the coming wave. It’s not just a tool or platform but a transformative meta-technology, the technology behind technology and everything else, itself a maker of tools and platforms, not just a system but a generator of systems of any and all kinds. Step back and consider what’s happening on the scale of a decade or a century. We really are at a turning point in the history of humanity.
– from The Coming Wave book by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar