“Chaos isn’t a lack of order; it’s a process where sensitive dependencies guide systems toward optimized configurations - Tom Golway”
Source: Rethinking Entropy: Decaying or Optimizing
“Truth is simple,
Lies are complex.
Light is simple,
Darkness is complex.
Curiosity is simple,
Conspiracy is complex.
Acceptance is simple,
Discrimination is complex.
Peace is simple, war is complex.
Love is simple, hate is complex.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Everyone makes mistakes, the brighter folks the more elaborate ones.”
“We have contributed to the initiation of a new science which, as I have said, embraces technical developments with great possibilities for good and for evil. We can only hand it over into the world that exists about us, and this is the world of Belsen and Hiroshima. We do not even have the choice of suppressing these new technical developments. They belong to the age, and the most any of us can do by suppression is to put the development of the subject into the hands of the most irresponsible and most venal of our engineers. The best we can do is to see that a large public understands the trend and the bearing of the present work, and to confine our personal efforts to those fields, such as physiology and psychology, most remote from war and exploitation. As we have seen, there are those who hope that the good of a better understanding of man and society which is offered by this new field of work may anticipate and outweigh the incidental contribution we are making to the concentration of power (which is always concentrated, by its very conditions of existence, in the hands of the most unscrupulous). I write in 1947, and I am compelled to say that it is a very slight hope.”
Source: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in The Animal and the Machine
“In The Quantified Society, I explore why we measure so much and what this does to us, individually and as a society. I discuss unwanted side effects, such as a blind belief in the objectivity of numbers, but also measurement’s ability to help us focus our attention on something important.”
Source: The Quantified Society: How our obsession with performance measurement shapes the world we live in
“Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.”
Source: Quote Me Everyday
“Many Minds, Many Lanes (Sonnet)
Poetry is a way of life, and nobody
knows the way better than those lost.
And when poetry meets science, there is
nothing more magically potent than that.
Science is a way of sight, and nobody
walks it better than the undoctrinated.
Religion is a way of light, and nobody
lives it better than the undivided.
End of rigidity is the beginning of religion,
end of division is the beginning of divinity.
To acknowledge prejudice is the awakening
of reason, which is the bedrock of curiosity.
Truth of good is truth of God -
there is nothing higher, more divine.
To me faith, science, poetry, all same,
many lanes to lift our one humankind.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Science is a way of sight, and nobody walks it better than the undoctrinated.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Love is a biological necessity that is as vital to a person’s wellbeing as fresh water, food, and exercise.”
“I have had episodes where I all of a sudden feel incredibly social and inhibited; I wish to talk to everyone and I begin writing a lot of mails to people I haven't spoken to for years or barely know at all. I do not think much about what I say, or what they say, I just say stuff without thinking much about it.”