“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” -- H.L. Mencken
'Red Smith was asked if turning out a daily column wasn’t quite a chore. ”Why, no,” dead-panned Red. “You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.”'
“Some people worry that AI will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” —Alan Kay