“Anyone who wishes to abridge free speech should be regarded as a tyrant.” – John Leake

Intelligent Humans Talking About Artificial Intelligence 

* “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.” – Stephen Hawking

* “AI is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.” – Elon Musk

* “The pace of progress in artificial intelligence is incredibly fast.” – Jeff Bezos

* “Artificial intelligence will evolve to become a superintelligence. We need to be mindful of how it’s developed and ensure that it aligns with humanity’s best interests.” – Bill Gates

* “AI is going to reshape every industry and every job.” – Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn

“AI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don’t.” – Ginni Rometty, former CEO of IBM

A-List Praise for the Côte d’Azur 

“Somebody ought to write a book about the French Riviera without getting sentimental or drunk.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A land where the mountains flirt with the sea.” – Jean Cocteau

“The most beautiful place I’ve ever seen.” – Queen Victoria

James Clear on Productivity

“The essence of productivity requires two things:

* Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. No wasted movement. No wasted effort.
* Compounding. Every project should have a long runway and feed the others.”

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” – Ayn Rand

About Ayn Rand 

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was the pen name of Alice O’Connor, a Russian-born American philosopher and author. She wrote two bestselling novels, Atlas Shrugged (1957) and The Fountainhead (1943), and is known for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism, which asserts that self-interest is the highest moral purpose and that reason is the only absolute.

She argued – inspirationally, sometimes – that humans are born with the capacity for reason and should pursue their own happiness, not sacrifice themselves for others.

I’m not an ideologue and don’t favor them because they get themselves in rhetorical tangles that are rationally impossible to get out of. That said, Rand was very good at debate and much fun to watch.

You’ll get a good sense of how brilliant she is here as she explains Objectivism to Mike Wallace.

“Never in my life have I seen an unholy trinity of censorship like I’ve seen with the power of government, big tech, and the mainstream media all pulling in the same direction when it came to enforcing their own narrative of COVID.” – Clay Travis

From Sara Teasdale: 

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”

From Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821):

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

Food for Thought

“Emerson said a man is what he thinks about all day long. I’d say a man is what he does all day long. What he thinks about is what he is not.” – Michael Masterson