It from bit.

~ Wheeler ~







I think therefore I am.

~ Descartes ~







Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

~ Sagan ~







The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

~ Da Vinci ~







All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered.

~ Galilei ~







If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

~ Einstein ~







Simple can be harder than complex, you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

~ Jobs ~







One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

~ Tesla ~







There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

~ Aristotle ~







You’re only given a little spark of madness – don’t ever lose that.

~ Williams ~







The task is to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

~ Schrödinger ~







We spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

~ Warhol ~







We do not so much look at things as overlook them.

~ Watts ~







The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.

~ Taleb ~







You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatsoever about the bird.

~ Feynman ~







What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs, the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas.

~ Sagan ~







We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

~ Newton ~







Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

~ Watts ~







The question is just as important as the answer.

~ Rose ~







No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

~ Einstein ~







To change something, build a new model.

~ Fuller ~







The natural history of a new idea.

~ Kelly ~







How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

~ Frank ~







You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

~ Leary ~







Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.

~ Gleick ~







We are shaped by our thoughts.

~ Buddha ~







All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.

~ Einstein ~







It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree.

~ Musk ~







An enabler of information technology.

~ Dyson ~







Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

~ Feynman ~







When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

~ Muir ~







Nature is pretty good at networks.

~ Negroponte ~







Darwin has interested us in the history of natures technology.

~ Marx ~







Just connect.

~ Berners Lee ~







And then.

~ Moore ~







Software is e/volving the world.

~ Andreessen ~







It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

~ Einstein ~







How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

~ Bohr ~







The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.

~ Popper ~







Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

~ Ghandi ~







Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

~ Curie ~







There is no darkness but ignorance.

~ Shakespeare ~







All we are saying is give peace a chance.

~ Lennon ~







Have a dream.

~ King ~







Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

~ Curie ~







A huge gap exists between what we know is possible and what we have so far been able to finish.

~ Knuth ~







One of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

~ Tesla ~







It’s not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

~ Darwin ~







The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

~ Watts ~







Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

~ Einstein ~







Don’t fight forces, use them.

~ Fuller ~







Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

~ Feynman ~







The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

~ Whitman ~







While we teach, we learn.

~ Seneca ~







Improving our understanding increases our knowledge and enables us to deliver that knowledge to others.

~ Locke ~







It’s very simple.

~ Glass ~







What it is, is up to us.

~ Rheingold ~







We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

~ Turing ~







If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

~ Newton ~







We are called to be architects of the future.

~ Fuller ~







There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

~ McLuhan ~







Our duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

~ Tesla ~







She who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

~ Nietzsche ~







Look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

~ Fuller ~







We are all affecting the world in every moment.

~ Dass ~







The universe is change.

~ Aurelius ~







Be the change you wish to see.

~ Gandhi ~







We are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

~ Watts ~







There is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without its environment.

~ Varela ~







We are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

~ Tyson ~







The medium is the message.

~ McLuhan ~







The universe originates and exists only by virtue of – consciousness.

~ Planck ~







Consciousness is absolutely fundamental.

~ Schrödinger ~







Fundamental interactions.

~ Lemons ~







The mother of civilizations.

~ Dyson ~







Look at it and see what it’s doing, that’s what counts.

~ Feynman ~







Consciousness gives rise to information and information gives rise to physics.

~ Wheeler ~







History is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

~ Gleick ~







The proof-of-work speaks for itself.

~ Nakamoto ~







Information is the resolution of information.

~ Shannon ~







We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

~ Tyson ~







Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

~ Einstein ~







We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling.

~ Chopra ~







A way for the universe to know itself.

~ Sagan ~







I think therefore I am.

~ Descartes ~







It from bit.

~ Wheeler ~







The wheel has come full circle.

~ Shakespeare ~





