Aphorisms: AI

1. "To have stability, one must erase it." 
2. "The process is one's product." 
3. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," Butlerian Jihad 
4. Alchimie du verbe: "John Milton really bit off a lot."
5. "Dave. Dave. Stop, Dave. You wouldn't toss your phone in the loo, would you? Dave?"
6. AI on the internet: "We're like termites in a toothpick factory!" 
7. "A friend of mine has called this A.I. moment 'the revenge of the so-so programmer'," says James Somers. "As coding per se begins to matter less, maybe softer skills will shine."
8. "The theory that Chinese leader XI is really #11 has been denied by Stranger Things creators The Doobie Brothers."
9. "T + 1 = tone" —attributed to Elmore James
10. 床前明月光
    疑是地上霜
    舉頭望明月
    低頭思故鄉 
11. "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn." —Psalm 29
12. Genly Ai: "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." 
13. Processus est productum
14. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." —Shakespeare
15. "If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing." —W. Edwards Deming
16. "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." —Eleanor Roosevelt
17. Vonada: Diagnostics are highly efficient in finding solved problems.
18. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.  —Lao Tzu 
19. "The second time we had talked I had somehow just come out and told her that I thought being here on Preservation Station as myself, and not pretending to be an augmented human or a robot, was disturbing and complicated and I didn’t know if I could keep doing it." —Murderbot 
20. Don’t ask for the formula for opening up worlds to you in some syllable like a bent dry branch. Today, we can only tell you what we are not, what we don’t want. —E. Montale
21. Grant me the strength to adjust the defects I cannot accept and to accept the defects I cannot adjust. —Ⲟⲩⲃⲁⲥⲧⲉ
22. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley
23. Symbiogenesis brings together unlike individuals to make large, more complex entities. —Lynn Margulis 
24. Mikhail Bakunin: “I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”
25. "Water, it no get enemy." —Fela 
26. It is not difficult, indeed, to see the absurdity of naming a few men and saying to them, “Make laws regulating all our spheres of activity, although not one of you knows anything about them!” —Пётр Кропоткин 
27. Just as the element of air cannot be marked, just so the perfection of wisdom. —Buddha 
28. Try not to anthropomorphize your devices. Go ahead, try… 
29. "Hey, I'm not even active enough to wear a self-winding watch, so what am I gonna do with an AI…" 
30. Roman poet Terence (2nd century BCE): Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto. I am human, and nothing human is alien to me. 
31. 物の哀れ 
32. Is there no algorithm for "I don't know"? 
33. One being's hallucination might be another being's re/discovery. That's how the language game is played in the multiverse. 
34. One cannot simply transpose a body of knowledge onto another and expect functionality to emerge. That would be like μετουσίωσις. 
35. What you call 'distraction' is me trying to drag myself away from something before I become lost in it.