We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.

نحن نَملِك القوةَ أكثَرَ مِنَ الإرادة؛ إذ غالبًا ما يكونُ عذرًا القَولُ بأنَّ شيئًا ما مُستَحِيل.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

لو لَم نَملِك عيوبًا، لَما أمتَعَنا جدًا البَحثُ عن عيوبِ الآخرين.

There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt.

لا يوجدُ حادثٌ سيئٌ إلى حدٍّ لا يَجِدُ فيه الرجلُ الحاذِق بعضَ الفائدة، ولا حادثٌ جيّدٌ إلى الحدِّ الذي لا يقدِر فيهِ الأحمَق أنْ يُحيلَه إلى ما فيه أذيّةٌ له.

If we judge of love by the majority of its results it rather resembles hatred than friendship.

إنْ حَكَمنا على الحبِّ بنتائجه، فإنّه بالكُرهِ أشبَهَ مِنهُ بالصداقة.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

الحبُّ الحقيقي مِثلُ الأشباحِ الحقيقية؛ كلُّ الناسِ يتكلَّمون بها، قليلونَ جدًا هُم مَن رَأَوها رأيَ العَين.

The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.

حبُّ العدلِ عندَ مُعظَمِ الناس هو ببساطةٍ خوفٌ مِن الظُلم.

It is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our friends.

مِنَ المُعيبِ أكثَر ألّا نَثِق بأصدقائِنا مِن أنْ نُخدَعَ مِن قِبَلِهم.

— Maxims, by La Rochefoucauld

Columbus egg,
By Nils von Dardel

Columbus egg is an expression that refers to a hard-to-achieve and brilliant idea or deed that seems so easy and logical after it's done.

The story goes: some people said to Columbus that “What you did was no great achievement, for even if you didn't discover the Americas, someone else would have.” After hearing their criticism, Columbus challenged them to make an egg stand on its tip. They tried many times and failed. At which time, Columbus took the egg, and tapped it on the table to make it flatter, thus making it stand on its tip.

اول شخص ( مريض) تم تجربة neural link عليه الي هو اصلا مشلول كدر يتحكم بالحاسب ويعلب شطرنج 😱
خطوة كبيرة للبشرية

Imagine a computer virus attacking the neuralink in your brain

I guess cybersecurity would have to become a medical specialty at some point

The CIA is about to go out of business, because Elon is doing all the spying for the government

For a neuralink user, an internet router would be as essential as food

When Orwell wrote 1984, I don't think he ever believed that "thoughtcrime" would be a real thing. Well, welcome to the future: Imagine being cancelled, with a neuralink in your brain

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The internet is increasingly becoming our 3rd brain hemisphere

Mommy I'm scared

It’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.

— Gilles Deleuze's politics of silence