Random quotes from books, movies, tv shows, or else.

  • Computers are not the thing. They are the thing that gets us to the thing. - Joe MacMillan, Halt And Catch Fire
  • Today, smoking is gonna save lives. - Dwight Schrute, The Office
  • “Six.”, “Six what?”, “Six questions since you walked through that door. Soon you’ll have to start being the man with the answers.”, “Why?”, “Seven.” - Polly, John, Peaky Blinders
  • Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. - Mr. Malcom, Jurassic Park
  • The idea of a machine that thinks and feels and cares has fascinated and tantalized and frightened and titillated humans for as long as we’ve had technology, and that plus the familiar cultural deference given to things that are large, rich, and loud has created an oddly abstracted discourse around AI – one that is extremely attentive to all its promised possibilities and pathologically patient with the goofy results that repeatedly surface instead. - David Roth, The Future Is Too Easy

  • Te l’ho già detto che i figli cambiano, vero? Noi possiamo solo osservare, stare a guardare ma non abbiamo voce in capitolo. Spediamo le nostre lettere, le nostre cartoline nel mondo e possiamo solo augurarci che arrivino a destinazione sane e salve, che nessuno postino sbadato le perda, che il francobollo non si stacchi, che la carta non si laceri disperdendo quel contenuto così prezioso. - L’acrobata, Laura Forti
  • Il vento non si vedrebbe se non ci fosse niente a sventolare: le bandiere rendono visibile l’invisibile. - Senza mai arrivare in cima, Paolo Cognetti
  • ‘Security’ takes many forms. There is security of knowing one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there’s security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is. - The dawn of everything. A new history of humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow

  • Non cadete nella trappola del dibattito infinito. Uscite per strada, organizzate dei pranzi con gli amici e la famiglia. Ridete, scherzate, bevete, ballate, fate l’amore. Il 25 aprile è questa cosa qui, poi gli altri giorni discutiamo di quello che vogliamo. Buona liberazione. - Matteo Bordone, Tienimi Bordone
  • Si mañana soy yo, mamá, si mañana no vuelvo, destruyelo todo. Si mañana me toca, quiero ser la última. - Cristina Torres-Cáceres