Piero Scaruffi quotes (selected by his readers):
- "It is very difficult to resist the temptation to think that the future will be exactly like he past even though the future has never been like the past"
- "If i am stupid, i am not intelligent enough to realize it".
- "Thinking about nothing makes it something. Thinking about something makes it nothing"
- "High-tech has become the discipline of complicating simple things"
- "Only when the tide recedes do you find out who's been swimming naked" (Warren Buffet). "We're all naked" (piero)
- "The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which."
- "Physics is an illusion. What it reveals is the structure of our brain, not the structure of the universe."
- "What we understand is not enough to understand why we understand it"
- "A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts" (Paul Valery) "A man is infinitely more complicated than his actions" (piero)
- "The success of most high-tech projects depends not on making smarter technology but on making dumber users"
- "Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us"
- "Computer science is becoming the discipline of turning your life into somebody else's business opportunity"
- "The living beings that have the longest life expectancy are those that have no brain: trees and bacteria"
- "The most powerful knowledge is the knowledge that induces people to radically change their concept of what knowledge is"
- "A man is infinitely more complicated than his actions; a woman is infinitely more complicated than her words" (apocryphal)
- "The only reason that things get occasionally done is that we misunderstand each other all the time"
- "Destiny is what you don't understand until it happens."
- Principles of Covariant Wisdom
- "Fundamentally, communism was a blessing to capitalism because it created so much poverty for capitalists to exploit."
- "Success in solving a set of problems inevitably creates a new set of problems, and a system that is incapable of solving the new set of problems."
- "We are not training machines to become like humans but humans to become like machines."
- "The severity of a problem increases exponentially with the time it takes to realize that the severity of a problem increases exponentially with the time it takes to realize that the severity of a problem increases exponentially with the time it takes..."
- "The only way to know what i know is to know what i don't know"
- "We keep changing the question but the answer remains the same"
- "The world is simpler than the brain that conceives it"
- "A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world."
- "The next time you say forever think of never"
- "Each of us is a lifelong project to build a coherent theory on top of a blatant contrdiction"
- "History is the impossible becoming inevitable."
- "The part is the sum of its wholes."
- "Knowledge is overrated, truth is underrated."
- "Philosophy is the art of turning solutions into problems"
- "We think we know where we live, but we only live where we know."
- "We are what we find, not what we search for."
- "Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder but in the mind of the thinker."
- "Great civilizations are those that do NOT learn from the mistakes of past civilizations"
- "Very few things are inevitable in life, not even life itself."
- "Intelligence is not about knowing the answers but about asking the questions"
- "Bureaucracy is often a problem, rarely a solution."
- "The best books are those you don't want to finish reading because you hate the idea that they will end"
- "Nature is a poet that never uses the word 'I'""
- "What we are today is a special case of what we will be tomorrow"
- "Thankfully we cannot understand the universe"
- "The glitch is the rhythm"
- "Demagogy leads to bigger disasters than the ones it promised to prevent."
- "Life is about finding solutions to solvable problems. What is more interesting is finding solutions to unsolvable problems."
- "We always underestimate the ingenuity of idiots"
- "If you disagree with yourself, you are always right."
- "A revolution is started by people who don't have what they want and hijacked by people who don't want what they have"
- "What is one expected to expect?"
- "The first step to finding a solution is to admit that there is a problem"
- "I see everything everywhere"
- "Am I myself?"
- "There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity"
- "Life is not a journey, it is a destination"
- "There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world"
- "Life is a question in the form of an answer"
- "The more familiar I get with the universe, the less familiar I feel with myself"
- "Aging is a voyage of the mind through its body as it learns how many organs have to work in order to keep it alive."
- "People tend to talk about what people tend to talk about"
- "Any prolonged aesthetic theory eventually becomes a distraction rather than an attraction."
- "Cogito. Ergo I am feasible."
- "I do not think thoughts, thoughts think me."
- "Most books are about aspects of human knowledge. Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about."
- "If you can't always get what you want, may you always want what you get"
- "Questions are more important than answers"
- "We are not Nature's only experiment, but we may be one of the few that will fail"
- "Every point in the universe is a solution to an equation"
- "In the age of globalization, we are all illiterate"
- "A fundamental property of life is the ability to predict the future."
- "The thinker is created by thought"
- "It only make sense to write/ of what one knows nothing of" (from the poem "Synthesis")
- "Most of political history is a story of very stupid individuals doing very stupid things"
- "I do not envy God"
- Check out also my Mottos of the Afterlife
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