Colin Bruce Milne

“as the AI researcher Pedro Domingos so memorably put it, “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.”21”
― Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“Cameron Slater: he is a very silly man, because I could stop the people who are going against him. But now, he is just going to get double. Judith Collins: you know the rule. always reward with Double. Cameron Slater: i learned the rule from you! Double it is. Judith Collins: If you can’t be loved, then best to be feared.15”
― Nicky Hager, Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand's political environment

“During the first century A.D., Alexandria was a veritable hotbed of mystical activity, a crucible in which Judaic, Mithraic, Zoroastrian, Pythagorean, Hermetic, and neo-Platonic doctrines suffused the air and combined with innumerable others.”
― Michael Baigent, Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ. The Shocking Legacy of the Grail