“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson

and the garden is huge..bigger than 8.3 billion... ― Chun van Lierop

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

― Rumi 

“I want to be an anomaly with 99.99% certainty in 2034: someone who keeps learning so I can turn other people’s difficult problems into clear, workable solutions. May the world determine my destiny. I shall do everything that I can, but I accept my fate and in some way a failure within the outcome of risk and fate.” 

― Chun van Lierop

“When Chun was sixteen years old, Chun may have understood the paradox exceptionally well, yet understanding it did not mean Chun knew how to live beyond it. Looking back from the present, and processing it now through the problem of intersubjective reality, a very high-dimensional private state must somehow be communicated through a low-bandwidth, time-constrained social channel structured by social-discursive forces. Much of the difficulty of human life arises precisely from this compression: from the attempt to translate the density of private experience into forms another person can receive, interpret, recognize, or misrecognize. It is perhaps here that we become most distinctly human—suspended between the divine and the animal.

What some call meaning-making creatures, desiring creatures, or symbolically mediated creatures; or, in more vulgar language: embodied, affective, raw, lustful, brutish, seductive, mean, loving creatures. Creatures capable of extraordinary depths of self-disclosure and equally extraordinary failures of it; conflict-producing and conflict-resolving, territorial yet technologically extended problem-solvers, forever attempting to make private realities propagate into worlds shared with others.” 

― Chun van Lierop (Reflections on the synthesis of my life: engineering, humanities, science, technology and life)