Quote for Today: Robin McKinley
The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You …
Quote for Today: Jim Butcher
“Oh,” the girl said, shaking her head. “Don’t be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You …
Quote for Today: Daniel Keyes
I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many …
Quote for Today: Troy Denning
He stands alone in hollow gloom, with the sound of his own breath whispering down unseen passages ahead and behind and to both sides, wondering how he stumbled into this …
Quote for Today: Franz Kafka
Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it …
Quote for Today: Pedro Domingos
One of the most important problems in machine learning—and life—is the exploration-exploitation dilemma. If you’ve found something that works, should you just keep doing it? Or is it better to …
Quote for Today: K.J. Bishop
I have come to believe that we steer our individual spheres of being through the spectra of possible worlds via the choices we make, the acts we perform. Most …
Quote for Today: David Whyte
To want to run away is an essence of being human, it transforms any staying through the transfigurations of choice. To think about fleeing from circumstances, from a marriage, a …
Quote for Today: Twyla Tharp
Here’s how I learned to improvise: I played some music in the studio and I started to move. It sounds obvious, but I wonder how many people, whatever their medium, …
Quote for Today: Hayao Miyazaki
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think …