My father says that almost everyone is asleep. Everyone you know, everyone you meet. But those who are awake live in a state of constant, total amazement.

Patricia Grainamore from Joe vs the Volcano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiWW-q_kpOI&t=1135s

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

In explaining why he is giving away almost all of his vast fortune in the next 20 years, Bill Gates is reported to have said: “when I die, many things may be said about me, but ‘he died rich’ won’t be one of them.”

The truth of a proposition bears no necessary relation to the responses of those persons who respond to pollsters.

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why,”

Man vacillates between being scared to death and bored to death.

Even when finite proofs exist, they could take longer than the age of the universe to write down.

Even when short proofs exist, they could take longer than the age of the universe to find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VplMHWSZf5c

See: https://wp.mmmind.com/wordpress/?p=346

The question, “can AI handle irony?”, put to chatGPT, produced the following result: Artificial intelligence can understand and detect patterns in language, including irony, but its understanding of irony may be limited compared to human comprehension. Some AI models are capable of identifying certain linguistic cues that suggest irony, such as contrasting statements or exaggerated language, but they may not fully grasp the context or underlying meaning behind the irony. Overall, AI can handle irony to a certain extent, but it may not always interpret it accurately or in the same nuanced way that humans do.

Fiction must be probable. Fact can be anything.

Aristotle