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1 " The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books. "
― Piero Scaruffi
2 " Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences "
3 " If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique. "
4 " The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which. "
5 " The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. "
6 " Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots? "
7 " 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. "
8 " It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy. "
9 " A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world. "
10 " Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us "
11 " I swam to shore, therefore i am "
― Piero Scaruffi , Synthesis
12 " As a side note to this bibliography, Wikipedia turned out to be the worst possible source. Most of its articles are simply press releases from public-relationship departments, with all the omissions and distortions that they deem appropriate for their business strategies. On the other hand, vintage magazines and newspapers were an invaluable source of information and analysis. If websites like Wikipedia are going to replace the magazines and newspapers of the past, the loss to scholarship will be colossal: the most persistent marketing department (or fan) will decide what information will be available to future generations. "
― Piero Scaruffi , A History of Silicon Valley - Almost a 3rd Edition
