#humans

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

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 had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#being #called #extreme #had #humans

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#abstract #concrete #evil #humans #make

Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is furrowed, wrinkled, sagging, ravaged by time. But the eyes are bright and, if not young, then somehow transcend the time that otherwise marks the face. It is as though someone else is looking at us, from somewhere inside the face, where everything is different. One can hardly be closer to another human soul. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#eyes #humans #life #old-age #perception

Looking down from my throne full of thorns, I glanced at the people on Earth. Oh, man. I despised them. It wasn’t like they were becoming better humans or anything, Devil forbid. In fact, they all roasted in their sin, mayonnaised in their stupidity, tomato-sauced in their envy and anger toward each other.... ↗

— Cameron Jace

#evil #hatred #humans #anger

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. ↗

— Jonathan Smith

#humans #art

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

God didn't create the fear, fear created the God. God didn't create humans, Humans created the God because of their fear. ↗

— John Art

#god #humans #art