For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd to motion, measures all things durable by present, past, and future.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd to motion, measures all things durable by present, past, and future.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Nor did He lie asleep before the Word sounded above these waters; ‘before’ and ‘after’ did not exist until His voice was heard. Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
That’s why there’s rules, understand? So that you think before you break ’em.
If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be? Even if we could keep the machines in a subservient position, for instance by turning off the power at strategic moments, we should, as a species, feel greatly humbled. … This new danger … if it comes at all … is remote but not astronomically remote, and is certainly something which can give us anxiety. It is customary, in a talk or article on this subject, to offer a grain of comfort, in the form of a statement that some particularly human characteristic could never be imitated by a machine. It might for instance be said that no machine could write good English, or that it could not be influenced by sex-appeal or smoke a pipe. I cannot offer any such comfort, for I believe that no such bounds can be set.
Alan Turing, quoted by Sebastian Sunday Grève in AI’s first philosopher: https://aeon.co/essays/why-we-should-remember-alan-turing-as-a-philosopher