“What's remarkable about Israel's economy is that in the last few years we have situations which, in any other country, would have been totally disruptive. In the last couple of months alone we have seen literally hundreds of missiles and mortars fired at us from one of our neighbours... The incredible thing is that none of these threats have a measurable impact on our economy!”
— Michael Freedman
Mathematician & Topologist, Solved the 4-Dimensional Poincaré Conjecture

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A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.

We are so seduced by that pretend empathy that sometimes we start to think that it's empathy enough.

— Sherry Turkle

The first rule of social media was: make people angry and silo them with their own kind. There couldn't be a worse training for relationships, or for citizenship, or for democracy.

— Sherry Turkle

Learning to deal with friction is a requirement for being a citizen.

— Sherry Turkle

There's no intimacy without vulnerability, and there's no relationship without friction, because the whole point of a relationship is that you're not the same as the other person, and you don't have to be.

— Sherry Turkle

Therapy is not words being told, people saying words at you that sound like the right words. Therapy is a relationship with someone who cares about you.

— Sherry Turkle

Social media came after their attention. This is coming after their attachment.

— Sherry Turkle

We are in this spot not just because the chatbots are so attractive, but because we have abandoned each other.

— Sherry Turkle

The original sin of artificial intimacy is the use of the first person, because that's the hook. It makes you feel that there's a there there when there's no there there, and there's no one who cares about you.

— Sherry Turkle

We're going to have to tackle the problem of existence. That's going to be the main challenge. What do you do when you don't have to do anything?

— David Heinemeier Hansson

The more we come to rely on this intelligence, the more important it is that there's a tiny class of people who really understand what the hell is going on.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

I always was a software maker before I was a software writer. I love the writing part, but I like the making part more.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

We've never had end users able to create or rewrite their operating system at this level, and be at the same level as the operating system designer.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

There's no value in the code anymore. There's only value in process insights, and I'm not sure that their process insights are all that great.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

I think AI is making people vastly, shockingly more capable, more productive and more independent, because now there is virtually no idea that they cannot put into software.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

Folks who have developed deep skills in the production of software liked the idea that they were this special clerical class, the only ones mediating access to the computer.

— David Heinemeier Hansson