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• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
  -- R. Buckminster Fulle...
• At about 2500 A.D., humankind discovers a computer problem that *must* be solved.
  The only difficulty is that the problem is NP complete and will take thousands of years even with the latest optical biologic technology available....
• Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not.
  In either case, the thought is quite staggering. -- R. Buckminster Fulle...
• Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong.
  -- Brent Welch...
• My girlfriend and I went on a picnic. I don't know how she did it, but she got poison ivy on the brain.
  When it itched, the only way she could scratch it was to think about sandpaper. -- Steven Wrigh...
• When I see a congressman giving his opinion on something, I always wonder if it represents his *real* opinion or if it represents an opinion that he's designed in order to be elected.
  It seems to be a central problem for politicians....
• When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
• AI-complete /A-I k*m-pleet'/ adj. [MIT, Stanford
  by analogy with `NP-complete' (see NP-)] Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence)....