"I wish they sent me to Mars instead." ~ Cat Marnell

Worth watching.

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Our kind. Us people. All of us that started the game with a crooked cue, that wanted so much and got so little, that mean so good and did so bad. All us folks." ~ The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson

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"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn." ~ Gore Vidal

"What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have obstinately, wilfully, struck out another difficult, absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness."

"What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice."

"I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."

"Reactionary as it is, corporal punishment is better than nothing."

Quotes from Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I am a sick man..." ~ Opening sentence of Notes From The Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"My little comedy is played out. The curtain is falling. Sinking into nothing, I cease to be superfluous..." ~ April 1, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turgenev

“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products” ~ Marcel Duchamp

"Yes, it is good, good to be rid, at last, of the wearing sense of life, of the persistent, restless consciousness of existence." ~ March 20, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turgenev

Edgar Degas, Self Portrait, 1863

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The opposite is probably also true; engaging with good, honest & smart people should make you a better person. So find and follow these people online.

The Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world.

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

Nelson Mandela's favourite quote from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Computer Vision

There are open source computer algorithms which programmers can teach to recognise specific objects and shapes. Google have created an "artificial brain" which can teach itself how to recognise objects and shapes. With Google's Project Glass now a reality, how long before we have this?

Project Glass and the epic history of wearable computers.