#hum

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#center #contradicts #deeply #held #humankind

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#before #being #binds #body #bondage

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#between #dad #direct #family #fell

Are you seriously telling me the truth about all this?" I asked. "I seriously am," he replied. "I was also serious about stealing a fry. ↗

— Lindsay Ribar

#art

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#breeds #either #humanity #makes #tolerates

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#again #alive #another #back #brings

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. ↗

— Charles Wagner

#chief #his #honestly #human #man

When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #greatness #humor #art

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#became #been #before #citizen #city

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#being #book #decided #eight #human