"If you anchor yourself in the truth, you move above thought and into the bliss of peace, where nothing shakes your #happiness. You move above a state of happiness that is conditional on external events into a state of permanent #joy.".-@MGawdat

"This is the story of a small country at the very edge of the world [. ] of an emperor descended from the Sun Goddess, of empresses, warlords, samurai, [. ] women warriors, [. ] geisha, and all the [. ] individuals who shaped this extraordinary society.".-@LesleyDowner

"There are skills and insights that can help us satisfy that desire for #connection [. ]. But whether we call it love, or friendship, or simply having a great conversation, achieving connection—authentic, meaningful connection—is the most important thing in #life.".-@cduhigg

"In the following pages you will find a celebration of how networks of humans, most of whom do not know each other, can collaborate to turn seemingly unpromising, inert substances into things of wonder.".-@EdConwaySky

"You are composed of three things: body, breath (life), intelligence. [. ] if you shall strive to live what is really your life [. ]—then you will be able to pass that portion of life [. ] free from perturbances, nobly, and obedient to your own daimon [. ]".- Marcus Aurelius

"With the term 'information regime' I refer to a form of domination in which information and its processing by algorithms and artifical intelligence have a decisive influence on social, economic and political processes.".-@Byung_ChulHan

"And at the end of all this, the fact that we humans [. ] have been able to come to an understanding of the laws governing us, and our #universe, is a great triumph. I want to share my excitement about these big #questions and my enthusiasm about this quest.".-#StephenHawking

"This book is not about how great #mathematics is, though it is, indeed, a glorious endeavor. [. ] this is a book that grounds mathematics in what it means to be a #human being and to live a more fully human life.".- @mathyawp @Math4HF

"We need a new evolutionary story of the #brain, one grounded not only in a modern understanding of how the brain anatomy changed over time, but also in a modern understanding of #intelligence itself.".-@maxsbennett

"We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. Everything good (aesthetics, ethics) and wrong (Fooled by #Randomness) with us seems to flow from it.".-@nntaleb

"We don't know yet whether the #universe will end in fire, ice, or something altogether more outlandish. What we do know is that it's an immense, beautiful, truly awesome place, and it's well worth our time to go out of our way to explore it. While we still can.".-@AstroKatie

"Truly random data remains spread out in an undefined mess. But #chaos—deterministic and patterned—pulls the data into visible shapes. Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.".-@JamesGleick

"[. ] the book doesn't limit itself to providing practical help; it also aspires to help you figure out how to boost your career in #datascience by participating in competitions.".-@lucamassaron @UniBananStates

"[. ] there is more to learn from these animals than simply the details of particular #adaptations, [. ] these specific systems can teach us generalities about animal behavior, brain organization, development, and #evolution.".- Kenneth Catania

"The act of #swiping a card to purchase something seems pretty simple, and to many, it is pretty mundane. However, if you can understand the details of what is happening within those three seconds, a world of opportunity opens up.".-@siddiquiahmed

"A theory can be '#notevenwrong' because it is so incomplete [. ] that it can't be used to make firm predictions [. ]. But there is a second connotation [. ]: worse than being wrong is to refuse to admit it when one is wrong.".-@notevenwrong

"#SHAP [. ] is a game-theory-inspired method created to explain predictions made by machine learning models. SHAP generates one value per input feature [. ] that indicates how the feature contributes to the prediction of the specified data point.".- @ChristophMolnar

"This is data as you have never known it [. ] #Factfulness [. ] can and should become part of your daily life. Start to practice it, and you will be able to replace your overdramatic worldview with a worldview based on facts.".-@HansRosling @OlaRosling @AnnaGapminder

"[. ] I hope we'll have answers to the question of who or what [. ] could possibly be #sentient. [. ] we'll need a theory of how and why this [. ] form of experience could have come into existence as a biological phenomenon that was favoured by natural selection.".-@Humphren

"Even if you just want to follow the conversation around the game, it will help to know where we came from and where the world of #baseball statistics is going. This book will take you there.".-@keithlaw