After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.