“Eloy Alfaro... el que intentó varias veces vender el Archipiélago de Galápagos ya a Norte América, ya al Japón y al fin a Alemania en tres mil millones de marcos y que no lo vendió porque Inglaterra puso el veto a la venta alegando ser Inglaterra dueña del Archipiélago y el Ecuador un 'benévolo administrador'.”
Source: Quito fue España
“Forbidden fruit is always very intriguing...though never as tasty as one imagined it would be.”
Source: Runaway Heart
“Hermes visited him in the Underworld a few days before the spring equinox festival, cajoling Hades to come to it.
Hades wandered across the fields with him, Kerberos limping along at his side. “No one wants the god of death at their fertility festival.”
“Sure they do. I’ve heard plenty of girls sighing over your tasty darkness.”
“Tasty darkness. Really.”
Source: Persephone's Orchard
“kisses happen
when my morning
blueberry muffin
sails slowly
upon my savoring tongue.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.”
Source: The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
“Hi, I'm Troy McClure, You might remember me from such films as Lead Paint, Delicious But Deadly and Here Comes The Metric System”
“A micro-task is best described as a task which is simple, repetitive or highly algorithmic in nature. Each executed task lasts between a few minutes to a few hours, and this short life-cycle ensures that a task can be contracted, completed and paid for expeditiously, often within the transaction window itself”
Source: The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
“To use the metaphor of our Information Age, consciousness to humans is as Cloud to computers. Just like your smartphone, your brain is a 'bio'-logical computing device of your mind, an interface for physical reality. Our minds are embedded into the greater mind-network, as computers in the Cloud. Viewed in this way, consciousness is 'non-local' Cloud, our brain-mind systems are receivers, processors and transmitters of information within that Cloud.”
Source: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution
“All scientific theories are required to be “falsifiable” and that ipso facto means that none can be true since Truth, by definition, is unfalsifiable. Equally, all scientific theories are required to be verifiable, but nothing can ever definitively verify any scientific theory, and Truth is not in any case something that requires any synthetic a posteriori verification, only analytic a priori proof – the complete opposite!
Science is a pragmatic, instrumental subject. It’s the science of appearances, not the science of ultimate reality, of things as they are in themselves, beyond appearance. Only ontological mathematics can address that noumenal, hidden reality. Science is undeniably good at producing theories that allow us to manipulate the “seen world”, but it’s just as bad at producing theories that allow us to manipulate the “unseen world” – which is the religious world in which humanity has always been most interested.”
Source: The Sam Harris Delusion
“A deer's head does not make a fireplace beautiful, on the contrary it makes it ugly, because no living being deserves to be a dead decor!”