Auriane Destrument Quotes & Sayings

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across. — Mercedes Lackey

The great thing is to become Saints. — Philip Neri

However, once technology enables us to re-engineer human minds, Homo sapiens will disappear, human history will come to an end and a completely new kind of process will begin, which people like you and me cannot comprehend. Many scholars try to predict how the world will look in the year 2100 or 2200. This is a waste of time. Any worthwhile prediction must take into account the ability to re-engineer human minds, and this is impossible. There are many wise answers to the question, 'What would people with minds like ours do with biotechnology?' Yet there are no good answers to the question, 'What would beings with a different kind of mind do with biotechnology?' All we can say is that people similar to us are likely to use biotechnology to re-engineer their own minds, and our present-day minds cannot grasp what might happen next. — Yuval Noah Harari

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. — Elbert Hubbard

Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick