I am closer!

For the first time in longer that I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That is where my problem is. I am now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness

  -- Chuck Palahniuk

Higher Source of Distinction

"To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with the advances in science”

-- Sir Humphry Davy (1778 – 29 May 1829) was an English chemist and inventor.

Reference:

http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/people/fellows/2012-02-29-Dimbleby.pdf

Inventing is ...

    Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment. 

    --Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology