Quotes from recent books

 Quotes from "My Journey Home"

• Within you, without you
• According to our surroundings and experiences, we have a particular perception of reality.
• When passion is frustrated, people lose all good sense.
• The nature of the mind is to interpret nonessentials essential. The mind creates artificial needs, believing it cannot live without them. In this way we carry a great burden of attachments through our life.
• Where there is faith, fear cannot exist.
• You may have to leave the geographical boundaries of India. However, you never have to leave Bharata, the spirit of India within.
• Saintly personality can be softer than a rose or harder than a thunderbolt.

Quotes from "The Dark Net"

• Normal person + anonymity + audience = Total Fuckwad
• For every starry-eyed vision of future utopias there was an equally vividly dystopian nightmare
• The idea that technology is neutral, just a tool, is plain wrong. That's never been the case. It embodies basic choices and values of any society.
• All Trans humanists accept that fairly mundane point - but sees that as an unfortunate, but inevitable, part of progress.

Quotes from "Artificial Unintelligence"

• Doctors were forgiven and allowed to resume practicing medicine after being found guilty of abusing patients.
• Availability Heuristic: The stories that spring to mind first are those one we tend to think are the most important or occur most frequently.
• The computer will get enough things right enough of the time that we may be tempted to call it mostly correct - but it will get things right for exactly the wrong reasons.
• Our brains today take in more than 11 million pieces of information at any given moment; because we can process only about 40 of those consciously, our Non-conscious mind takes over, using biases and stereotypes.
• Number of deaths from motor vehicle traffic was 35,398 in 2014.
• In self-driving car, death is a feature, not a bug.
• One of the core values of the Internet is the idea that things can be ranked.
• There is even term for the useless software that people make: vaporware. The idea is that it's created, and then it evaporates because nobody works on the project after the hackathon.
• No man is better than a machine, and no machine is better than a man with a machine.