"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."

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Source : "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Book by Vernor Vinge, 1993.

Vernor Vinge

#Technology Quotes #Natural Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.”
“Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
“Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!”
“When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; youll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.”

Source : "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.
“Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".”
“We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.”
“We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.”

Source : William Glasser, MD (2013). “Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology”, p.122, iUniverse

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