#humans

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#form #function #human-body #humans #ornamentation

Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally. ↗

— Mark Webber

#biking #chocolate #comes #cycling #designed

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#find #humans #less #living #struggled

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anger #best #bringing #choose #conditions

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#dangerous #emphasizes #humans #most #now

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. ↗

— Claude Shannon

#humans #i #machines #robots #rooting

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#computer #control #defend #defends #example

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#humans #i #i think #lifetime #like

Give humanity a truly unlimited field, and it would fill it with Happy Meal toys and holographic sports-star, collectible trading card game art. ↗

— Charles Stross Cory Doctorow

#art