Newton Lee Quotes

In the social media world of immediacy without proper fact checks, deepfakes and shallowfakes are only making it harder for the public to discern the difference between truth and error.

IBM scientist Murray Campbell from the Deep Blue team revealed that the “extremely human move” in the chess game against Gary Kasparov was actually a bug in the program that was later fixed. What an opportune moment for a computer to evince that “To err is human!”

Even a large majority of beautiful music, great literature, and wonderful work of arts depicts human suffering, injustice, fears, and unfulfilled desires.

Instead of fearing the unknown, we must conquer our fear.

Terrorism is a disease that is metastasizing like cancer in the global body of humanity. A temporary relief of the symptoms or sweeping it under the rug will only worsen the situation, making the disease more difficult to treat.

Humans may be on top of the food chain, but we are still at the mercy of earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, volcano eruptions, and other natural disasters.

Transhumanism supports infinite diversity in infinite combinations from all ethnicities and races, the religious and the atheists, conservatives and liberals, the young and the old regardless of socioeconomic status, gender identity, or any other individual qualities.

Direct democracy benefits everyone as long as it does not drown out minority voices.

Whether the 6-day creation story is a fable or the truth alluding to time dilation in Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, the Bible and the Quran – sharing the same root as an Abrahamic religion – are undoubtedly amongst the most profound and influential books ever written.

As wearable devices, health tracking, and quantified self are gaining popularity, human beings are also becoming part of the Internet of things.

Our strongest ally in the battle against death is the combination of futurism, transhumanism, science, technology, philosophy, and politics.

World peace is as simple and elegant as E=mc2 if we muster our brainpower and benevolence instead of weapons and animosity. Do we really need another Einstein to help figure this out?

History often repeats itself. For example, World War I and World War II. But rest assured that there are many people in all walks of life—likened to military officer Stanislav Petrov, activist Malala Yousafzai, and politician President Jimmy Carter—who are doing everything possible to prevent World War III.

Diversity and integration are also needed in science and technology. Pride and prejudice are obstacles to scientific advancements and truth seeking.

With quantum computing, scientists are learning how to better formulate questions, lest we end up with a perplexing answer like “42.”