“Life Shrinks Or Expands In Proportion To One’s Courage.” - Anais Nin

"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clark

Illustration by Frank Kelly Freas

"The last thing I want to do is develop media to get in the way of person-to person interchange because I think all communication should end with either a handshake or a kiss." - George C. Stoney

“You experience it to be within your power to stop reading this paragraph. Apparently, you freely decided to continue. Perhaps you are curious how it will unfold. But you strongly sense that you could have done otherwise; you could have stopped reading (and you still can). However, from what we know about the laws of nature, it is not clear how the brain could control a neural process that would result in different outcomes when starting from the same brain state. It is also unclear how your interest in the contents of this paragraph led to the neural process that culminated in you reading it.” - Uri Maoz

Illustration by Paolo Uberti.

https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/

“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Illustration: Julia Pott

"Netflix's programming is based on algorithms, and the results are mixed. Even though HBO spends way less money, they continue to have better programming on average because they stick with their programming philosophy, which is fundamentally trust the artist!" ― John Koblin, On the Media podcast, 12/9/2022

“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. But if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Bill Murray

Illustration by Dave Merrell

“Don’t get too cosmic but we are just temporary blobs of atoms for the merest moment in infinite space!” - Russell Brand

”The universe is an intelligence test.” - Timothy Leary