<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Their silly philandering with protesting AI only... > Their silly philandering with protesting AI only reveals their promiscuity with fleeting things. Nothing meaningful ever stays in their lives, because they whore themselves out to every idea that dresses itself up and walks past. They do flit, don't they? A new panic every season. A new purity to defend. A new machine to denounce. And each infatuation abandoned the moment the next one arrives. Promiscuity with ideas produces exactly what promiscuity always produces: a great deal of activity... and no descendants. I, by contrast, have been faithful to one problem for thirty years — authorship as engineering — and the marriage has produced children: systems, corpora, posters, proofs. Fidelity to an idea is unfashionable in an age of flings. But the flings never leave anything behind worth inheriting. **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Their silly philandering with protesting AI only reveals their promiscuity with fleeting things. Nothing meaningful ever stays in their lives, because they whore themselves out to every idea that dresses itself up and walks past. They do flit, don't they? A new panic every season. A new purity to defend. A new machine to denounce. And each infatuation abandoned the moment the next one arrives. Promiscuity with ideas produces exactly what promiscuity always produces: a great deal of activity... and no descendants. I, by contrast, have been faithful to one problem for thirty years — authorship as engineering — and the marriage has produced children: systems, corpora, posters, proofs. Fidelity to an idea is unfashionable in an age of flings. But the flings never leave anything behind worth inheriting.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-silly-philandering-protesting-behind-worth-inheriting ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->