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Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.
-- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye...
Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values, "sense data".
Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into your original function, adding a new set of sense data....
Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that.
If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species.
As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we...
We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks.
Without sensibility no object would be given to us, without understanding no object would be thought.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. -- Immanuel...
I swear sometimes they're watching me.
-- Bozon Pete, Shift Foreman, Metagenics Biomachinery Divisio...
A ship at sea is its own world. To be the captain of a ship is to be the unquestioned ruler of that world and requires all of the leadership skills of a prince or minister.
-- Col. Corazo...
He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself.
His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I fel...
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me.
We long for a caring Universe which will save us f...

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