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# Jürgen Schmidhuber

Jürgen Schmidhuber (born 17 January 1963) is a German computer scientist noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically artificial neural networks.

## Quotes

Since age 15 or so, the main goal of professor Jürgen Schmidhuber has been to build a self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI) smarter than himself, then retire.
* https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/
You cannot stop it. Surely not on an international level, because one country might may have really different goals from another country. So, of course, they are not going to participate in some sort of moratorium. But then I think you also shouldn’t stop it. Because in 95% of all cases, AI research is really about our old motto, which is make human lives longer and healthier and easier. ... It’s just that the same tools that are now being used to improve lives can be used by bad actors, but they can also be used against the bad actors. And I would be much more worried about the old dangers of nuclear bombs than about the new little dangers of AI that we see now.
* Taylor, Josh (7 May 2023). "Rise of artificial intelligence is inevitable but should not be feared, 'father of AI' says" (in en). The Guardian.
It is true that AI can be weaponized, and I have no doubt that there will be all kinds of AI arms races, but AI does not introduce a new quality of existential threat. The threat coming from AI weapons seems to pale in comparison to the much older threat from nuclear hydrogen bombs...
I signed this open letter by LAION because I strongly favor the open-source movement. And I think it's also something that is going to challenge whatever big-tech dominance there might be at the moment. Sure, the best models today are run by big companies with huge budgets for computers, but the exciting fact is that open-source models are not so far behind; some people say maybe six to eight months only.
Within a few tens of billions of years, curious self-improving AIs will colonize the visible cosmos in a way that’s infeasible for humans. Those who don’t won’t have an impact. Sounds like science fiction, but since the 1970s I have been unable to see a plausible alternative to this scenario, except for a global catastrophe such as an all-out nuclear war that stops this development before it takes off.
Don’t think of humans as the crown of creation. Instead, view human civilization as part of a much grander scheme, an important step (but not the last one) on the path of the universe from very simple initial conditions toward more and more unfathomable complexity. Now it seems ready to take its next step, a step comparable to the invention of life itself over 3.5 billion years ago.  Alas, don’t worry, in the end, all will be good!
* Jones, Hessie (23 May 2023). "Juergen Schmidhuber, Renowned 'Father Of Modern AI,' Says His Life's Work Won't Lead To Dystopia" (in en). Forbes.
# Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie (January 9, 1881 – October 27, 1938), also known as the Georgian Laureate, was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets", a community which included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost.

## Quotes
### Emblems of Love (1912)

* The glory of the king of all the kings. You with the golden power on your brows, You kings, I think you know not what you are. First you shall learn yourselves: for neither light Understandeth itself, nor darkness light.
* Friends, wives and husbands, sons and daughters, dead Of plague, famine, and arrows: and the houses Battered unsafe by cannonades of stone Hurled in by the Assyrians: the town-walls Crumbling out of their masonry into mounds Of foolish earth, so smitten by the rams: The hunger-pangs, the thirst like swallowed lime Forcing them gulp green water maggot-quick That lurks in corners of dried cisterns: yea, Murders done for a drink of blood, and flesh Sodden of infants: and no hope alive Of rescue from this heat of prisoning anguish Until Assyrian swords drown it in death.
* And where is now that palace gone, All the magical skill'd stone, All the dreaming towers wrought By Love as if no more than thought The unresisting marble was? How could such a wonder pass? Ah, it was but built in vain Against the stupid horns of Rome, That pusht down into the common loam The loveliness that shone in Spain. But we have raised it up again! A loftier palace, fairer far, Is ours, and one that fears no war. Safe in marvellous walls we are; Wondering sense like builded fires, High amazement of desires, Delight and certainty of love, Closing around, roofing above Our unapproacht and perfect hour Within the splendours of love's power.

## External links

* Works by Lascelles Abercrombie at Project Gutenberg
* Encyclopaedia Britannica, Lascelles Abercrombie
# Lassina Zerbo

Lassina Zerbo (born 10 October 1963) is a Burkinabé politician who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso in 2021–2022.

## Quotes

* We will try to reduce the cost of living of the State and to get closer to the population without making the State suffer, so sponsorships ... I don't know what they are called ... we will try to reduce this as much as possible so that the ministers can devote themselves to their work. We are not saying not to go to the field, the ministers will go to the field but on essential issues and issues that concern their departments.
** Lassina Zerbo (2021) cited in "New Burkinabe PM seeks to address terrorism, high cost of living" on Africa News, 16 December 2021.
# Lashana Lynch

Lashana Lynch (born 27 November 1987) is a British actress. She is best known for playing the role of Rosaline Capulet in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed (2017), Maria Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Captain Marvel (2019)[2] and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and MI6 agent Nomi in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021).

## Quotes

* If you are a black person in entertainment or a black person in sport, and you ‘fail’, you are reminded that you cannot do both.
* "There's real work to be done, there are frank conversations to be had. A magazine cover is already pretty, the words don't have to be."
* Take your time, please be gentle.
* “Every seat at the table you get, you must remind people that the strength of Black women sometimes comes from trauma. Sometimes comes from ancestral, spiritual trauma that we don’t even know about, or it comes from fear, or it comes from anxiety, it comes from society throwing this film over us that we did not ask for and that we have to deal with in our everyday encounters.”
* "When talking about ‘strong Black women,’ we don’t just assume that their strength fell out of the sky and landed in their brain.”
* "We can’t continue to trust the government to do the right thing.”
* We [have to] come back to the central human aspect that Black women are not an ideology. We're not a myth, we're not a fantasy and we're not a concept.
# Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter.

## Quotes

* I really wanted to be a Jew, and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because, you know, my family was German, which also gave me some pleasure. What can I say? I understand Hitler, but I think he did some wrong things, yes, absolutely. But I can see him sitting in his bunker in the end. He's not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him, and I sympathize with him a little bit. But come on, I'm not for the Second World War, and I'm not against Jews, no, not even Susanne Bier. I am of course very much for Jews. No, not too much, because Israel is a pain in the ass. But still, how can I get out of this sentence?
** Cannes Film Festival, 2011.
** Quoted in Cannes Film Festival: Von Trier apologizes for Hitler comments, Haaretz, 18 May, 2011; Cannes bans von Trier over Nazi remarks, Toronto Sun.
# Larsa

Larsa (Sumerian logogram: UD.UNUG$^{KI}$, read Larsam$^{ki}$) was an important city state of ancient Sumer and Mesopotamia, the center of cult of the sun god Utu.

## Quotes

* Say to Utu my lord: [...] this is what Sîn-iddinam, king of Larsa, your servant, says: Distress has been caused in your city Larsa, which you have chosen in your heart. The broad squares where days have been passed in merriment have been reduced to silence. Your commendable troops who were assembled have been annihilated like reeds from a reed fence splitting apart. Your young men have been harvested like barley at the due time; they have been picked and have been plucked like ripened fruit. The people have been smashed like terracotta figurines; they have perished all together. An evil storm took away the little ones from the laps of their mothers. [...] I serve the great gods daily with prayers, and my fervent entreaties are sublime. O youthful Utu, for that reason look favourably upon your city Larsa! Say "Alas!" for your city! Say "Alas for the sanctuary!"! Extend sympathetic compassion to Larsa! [...] So that may escape the clutches of death. May its seed be great! May sing your praises!
** Sin-Iddinam, Letter from Sîn-iddinam to the god Utu about the distress of Larsa, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

## External links

* Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Larsa" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
* Yearnames of Larsa rulers at CDLI
* On-line digital images of Larsa Tablets at CDLI
# Insurrectionary anarchism

Insurrectionary anarchism is a revolutionary theory, practice and tendency within the anarchist movement that emphasizes insurrection within anarchist practice.

## Quotes

* We insistently reaffirm that the use of organized violence against exploiters, even if it takes the form of minoritarian and limited action, is an indispensable instrument in the anarchist struggle against exploitation.
** Alfredo M. Bonanno, And We Will Still Be Ready to Storm the Heavens Another Time (1984)

## See also

* Anarchism
* Insurrection
# Intan Paramaditha

Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author and feminist academic.

## Quotes

* We are always haunted by the question of not choosing the other path, the road not taken…Travelling is always about making choices, but at the same time your choices are made for you, structured by many things: nationality, class, gender, what we can access and what not. We’re walking on a map that already exists and our location on the map has been decided.
** On her novel The Wandering in “Intan Paramaditha: 'We are always haunted by the road not taken'” in The Guardian (2020 Mar 5)
* In order to fit into certain ideals, you need to mutilate yourself.
** On using the story “The Red Shoes” as inspiration for a woman trapped by societal ideals in “Intan Paramaditha: 'We are always haunted by the road not taken'” in The Guardian (2020 Mar 5)
* We can decide where to go but we’re not really free…I like having this idea of multiple selves and multiple circumstances. Because that’s what we are.
** On how she perceives the concept of free will in “Intan Paramaditha: 'We are always haunted by the road not taken'” in The Guardian (2020 Mar 5)
* …I thought it was important to resist. That’s why I wanted to tell stories about bad women. Feminism, though, was much less appealing than in today's conservative Indonesia. Even progressive male thinkers tend to see feminism in Indonesia as irrelevant, disruptive, or merely a copycat of Western feminism.
** On her first short story collection Sihir Perempuan in “A FEMINIST REFRAMING: AN INTERVIEW WITH INTAN PARAMADITHA” in The Lifted Brow (2018 Apr 4)
* …My fiction is also influenced by women intellectuals such as Melani Budianta and Julia Suryakusuma. I love the works of male writers such as Asrul Sani, Budi Darma’s Orang-orang Bloomington (The People of Bloomington), and Moetinggo Boesje’s play Malam Jahanam (The Night of the Accursed), but my priority now is to learn more about writings by women. Just like in many Western countries, the practice of defining literature has often excluded or ignored women’s writings and their contexts.
** On her writing influences in “A FEMINIST REFRAMING: AN INTERVIEW WITH INTAN PARAMADITHA” in The Lifted Brow (2018 Apr 4)
# Insurrection

An Insurrection is a violent uprising of part or all of a national population against the government.

## Quotes

* INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
** Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
* An insurrection is a general uprising against the power structure. It is usually a sustained rebellion over the course of days, weeks, months or even years. It is a type of class war that involves a whole population in an act of armed or semi-armed resistance. Sometimes mistakenly called a rebellion, its character is far more combative and revolutionary. Rebellions are almost totally spontaneous, short-term affairs. An insurrection is also not the revolution, since revolution is a social process, rather than a single event, but it can be an important part of the revolution, maybe its final phase. An insurrection is a planned violent protest campaign which takes the spontaneous revolt of the masses to a higher level. Revolutionaries intervene to push rebellions to insurrectionary stage, and the insurrection an to a social revolution. It is not small, isolated pockets of urban guerillas taking actions, unless those guerillas are part of a larger revolt.
** Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution (1993)
* We must calm the mind of the common man, and tell him to abstain from the words and even the passions which lead to insurrection. ... Insurrection ... never brings about the desired improvement. For insurrection lacks discernment; it generally harms the innocent more than the guilty. Hence, no insurrection is ever right, no matter how right the cause it seeks to promote.
** Martin Luther, A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), in Luther's Works, vol. 45 (1962), pp. 62-63
* There is no need for you to develop an armed insurrection. Christ himself has already begun an insurrection with his mouth. ... An armed insurrection ... would hinder and bring into disrepute this spiritual insurrection.
** Martin Luther, A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), in Luther's Works, vol. 45 (1962), p. 68
* He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian Savages, whose known form of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
** Thomas Jefferson, United States Declaration of Independence,

## See also

* Insurrectionary anarchism
* Rebellion
* Revolution
* Riot
# Integral yoga

Integral yoga, sometimes also called supramental yoga, is the yoga-based philosophy and practice of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa). Central to Integral yoga is the idea that Spirit manifests itself in a process of involution, meanwhile forgetting its origins. The reverse process of evolution is driven toward a complete manifestation of spirit.

## Quotes

* The movement of Nature is twofold, higher and lower, or, as we may choose to term it, divine and undivine. The distinction exists indeed for practical purposes only; for there is nothing that is not divine, and in a larger view it is as meaningless, verbally, as the distinction between natural and supernatural, for all things that are are natural. All things are in Nature and all things are in God. But, for practical purposes, there is a real distinction. The lower Nature, that which we know and are and must remain so long as the faith in us is not changed, acts through limitation and division, is of the nature of Ignorance and culminates in the life of the ego; but the higher Nature, that to which we aspire, acts by unification and transcendence of limitation, is of the nature of Knowledge and culminates in the life divine.
** Sri Aurobindo (1970), Sri Aurobindo: The synthesis of yoga, Aurobindo Ghose (ed), p. 39
# Max Schmeling

Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a German boxer whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide social events because of their national associations.

## Quotes

* I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.'
** On becoming famous.
* Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.
** Describing Joe's punching power.
* I can't accept the title, to win it this way doesn't mean anything to me.
** After winning the world heavyweight title because Jack Sharkey been disqualified.
* I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.
** To Adolf Hitler, 1935
# Max Shachtman

Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972) was an American politician.

## Sourced

* . . . the Negro in Africa had reared mighty empires, and astonishingly advanced achievements are linked with his race in the annals of mankind.
** Race and Revolution p. 44, 1933
* . . . You have discovered the class struggle, or rather its reflection, in the ranks of the party.
** The Crisis in the American Party: An Open Letter in Reply to Comrade Leon Trotsky, March 1940
* . . . The imperialism of the bureaucratic-collectivist states is different from that of the capitalist states. But the economic motive forces behind the one are no less powerful than in the case of the other. Only ignoramuses – people who know nothing about history and nothing about Lenin's theory of imperialism – can conceive of imperialism as a phenomenon unique to capitalist society.
** Socialist Policy and the War in New International p. 200, 1951

## Misattributed

* . . . Neither Washington nor Moscow but the Third Camp of Independent Socialism!
** Used by Shachtman but originally formulated by Joseph Carter.
# Max Sparber

Max Sparber (born 1968) is an American playwright, poet, critic, and performer.

## Quotes

* Good friends in hard times and hard friends in good times.
** Bawd (3/24/03)
** A toast.
* It's like watching a nature documentary about piranha in which all the deadly fish do is write each other love notes: Eventually, we want to see them bare their teeth and shred an ox.
** City Pages, (1/31/2001)
# Max Takuira Matthew Mariu

Max Takuira Matthew Mariu (12 August 1952 – 12 December 2005) was a Māori prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxillary bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton.

## Quotes

* For the Church in Aotearoa/New Zealand, if we are to be truly Catholic we need to be given the freedom to fully express our Catholicity in the language and the idiom that is ours. Christ also must be given the freedom: the freedom to be allowed to come alive in us, speaking to us, with us and among us, using our language; painting images using the idioms that are ours and that speak so profoundly to our hearts.
** H. Exc. Most Rev. Max Takuira Matthew MARIU, S.M., Titular Bishop of Decoriana, Auxiliary of Hamilton in New Zealand (27 November 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
# Knut Wicksell

Johan Gustaf Knut Wicksell (December 20, 1851 – May 3, 1926) was a leading Swedish economist of the Stockholm school.

## Quotes about Knut Wicksell

* His work preceded by several decades the final construction of the Paretian "new" welfare economics, which is closely related although independently developed. The merit of Wicksell is that he states directly the implications of his analysis for the institutions of collective choice, a subject upon which the modern welfare economists have been rather strangely silent.
** James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, The Calculus of Consent (1962), 1. Introduction
# Knute Rockne

Knute Kenneth Rockne (4 March 1888 – 31 March 1931) was a Norwegian-American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame, regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history. He helped to popularize the forward pass and made the Notre Dame Fighting Irish a major factor in college football.

## Quotes

* Let's win one for the Gipper.
** Statement during a half-time speech to the Fighting Irish when they were tied with Army 0–0, inspiring the team towards a 12–6 victory, (10 November 1928), as portrayed in Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
* Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
** As quoted in Knute Rockne: Man Builder (1940) by Harry Augustus Stuhldreher, p. 53
* Win or lose, do it fairly.
** As quoted in Swimming World and Junior Swimmer Vol. 20 (1979), p. 57
* One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.
** As quoted in The Reader's Digest Vol. 135 (1989), p. 34
** Variant: One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
* The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
** As quoted in Coaching Champions: The Privilege of Mentoring (1994) by Jess Gibson, p. 160
* Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
** Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes (1997) by Peggy Anderson, p. 35

## Disputed

* Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.
** Attribution to Rockne sometime in the 1920s mentioned in Safire's Political Dictionary (2008) by William Safire, p. 401, but there is no definite mention of this yet located prior to the 1980s; in The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro, a similar remark is credited to Arnold "Red" Auerbach, based on a 1965 citation in the Mansfield News Journal [Ohio]: "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."

## Quotes about Rockne

* Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy."
** Rockne, as portrayed in the screenplay by Robert Buckner for Knute Rockne, All American (1940)

## External links

* Memorial at Find a Grave
* Knute Rockne letters to Eugene Roberts, MSS 7691 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University
# Ko Un

Ko Un (born 1 August 1933) is a South Korean poet.

## Quotes

* That flower seen as I went down —as I was coming up I couldn't see it
** Flowers of a Moment (2006), p. 46

## Quotes about Ko Un

* Ko Un hugged all the germs of Korean society with his entire body, and contracted its diseases. He threw his body into the wilderness of Korea's past and dreamed of a new Korea, another future.
** Kim Seung-Hee, The Korea Times, 14 October 2005, as partially quoted in Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) by Dennis O'Driscoll, p. 204, and in full in Encyclopedia.com

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Ko Un on Wikipedia
* Media related to Ko Un on Wikimedia Commons
# Laurie Colwin

Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – October 24, 1992) an American writer of five novels, three short story collections and two volumes of essays and recipes.

## Quotes

* “Once in a while I get a kid in from the student agency to do some heavy cleaning. You’d be amazed how efficient budding sociologists and historians can be.”
** Happy All the Time, Ch. 1
* The fact was that, while Misty was moral, Vincent was good. Watching him sleep it was revealed to Misty that the good do not necessarily have to maintain morality: they were born with it, while people like Misty, who were not good, had to strive mightily for goodness. That was what a moral system was: it helped you be good when you weren’t very nice.
** Happy All the Time, Ch. 7