“You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.” NeedsGivingPersonsYoungIdentityEgoCreatingStructureConstructsNarcissistic Author:Richard Rohr
“Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.” LooksKindIdeasGoes OnCreatingPhotographyMythologyVacationConstructsSouvenirsGreat FamilyMemento Author:Larry Sultan
“In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.” ShouldChildrenSoulCasesCreatingMachinesIntelligentInstrumentsProvidingConstructsAttemptingMansionsProcreationIntelligent Machines Author:Alan Turing