Nick Bostrom Simulation Quotes & Sayings

Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture. — Tony Dovale

I know what he isn't saying. Very kindly, Simon's telling me that with all that has come to pass and all the help that has been made available to me, the only thing standing in my way now is me. — S. Kelley Harrell

You have to turn your head to see peripheral miracles. — Glennon Doyle Melton

He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians, judging the depth of their wisdom by the breadth of his own ignorance ... — Isaac Asimov

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire

See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve. — Sathya Sai Baba

For him, the control over his subs' minds and bodies was what he was after. The things he did to them sexually or otherwise, the things he said, what he made them wear ... it was all carefully calibrated for effect. Sure, there was pain involved, and yeah, maybe they cried from the vulnerability and the fear. But they begged him for more. — J.R. Ward

Change is scary but almost all change is good. — Kate White

One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball. — Bert Blyleven

I have no intention of running for office again. — George Allen

Harvard is the home of American ideas. — P. J. O'Rourke

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative. — W. Eugene Smith

He sat up, going still. "Am I wearing a wife-beater, Lizvetta?" He gaped down. "Oh, come on!"
Lothaire — Kresley Cole

My chicken parmesan tasted a little saltier than I would've liked, undoubtedly because it was seasoned with my tears. — Ross Mathews

Are you living in a computer simulation? — Nick Bostrom

I am not an easel-kisser. — Martin Kippenberger