Newton Lee on Time

"Too many people prefer to stay inside their own comfort zones with a one-sided liberal or conservative sentiment."

"It is high time we treated drug abuse and terrorism as diseases instead of wars -- curing the patients rather than killing them."

"Only time will tell if serendipity becomes zemblanity as consumers are constantly bombarded by advertisements."

"Not only that “every dog has its day”, but also that “every dog has its data” in the digital information age."

"A modern-day serpent is anyone who disseminates misinformation and disinformation in their verisimilitude."

"Morning newspapers are yesterday's news; social media news are the now moments."

"World peace is in the best interests of everyone. Protectionism is not an option in today’s global economy. Nationalism should not outweigh international cooperation."

"The most precious thing that people can give to one another is time."

"The FBI may decide to leave a suspected mole undisturbed for years in order to feed him false critical information at an opportune moment or to use him to catch a bigger fish."

"Abrahamic religions – Islam, Christianity, and Judaism – are neither religions of peace nor religions of violence. They are storytellers of the past and forewarners of the future."

"Human-machine symbiosis is the workforce of the future."

"In time, robots will be more versatile and ubiquitous."

"The future is arriving sooner than we imagine."

"Greta Thunberg represents an increasing number of teens who are following the pattern of Melinda French Gates’ journey into philanthropy: “We were surprised, then we were outraged, then we were activated."

"Had Albert Einstein accepted the Israeli cabinet’s offer to become the country’s President in 1952, the Middle East would have been a very different place today because of Einstein’s commitment to pacifism."

"We cannot change the past even if we could go back in time. The fabric of space-time continuum may automatically correct anomalies caused by, say, a time traveler such that any ripple effects are short-lived."

"Modern humanity with some 5,000 years of recorded history has been experiencing growing pains, with no end in sight. It is high time for humanity to grow up and to transcend itself by embracing transhumanism."

"There are moments in time when we feel that we are trapped in a mortal body, stuck between a rock and a hard place, being pulled in two opposite directions, or treading the fine line between reality and illusion."

"Sometimes the answers are hiding in plain sight. A eureka moment came to Archimedes when he connected the dots between the ordinary routine of taking a bath and the scientific pursuit of determining the volume of an irregularly shaped object."

"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."

"Within a period of 20 years, AI has gone from “it’s an extremely human move” described by world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1996 to “it’s not a human move” opined by Go grandmaster Fan Hui in 2016. There will come a time when humans can no longer explain the decision-making process of a superintelligent computer."