Quotes from Piero Scaruffi

Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help their government remain the world's superpower. All the scientists who worked in and for Germany in the 1930s lived to regret that they directly helped a sociopath like Hitler harm millions of people. Let us not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us

I swam to shore, therefore i am

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Life is a question in the form of an answer

There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

Life is not a journey, it is a destination

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world