"Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same."

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Scott Aaronson

#Confusing Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Mechanic Quotes

“In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth and nice guys with no talent finish last.”

Source : "Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball". Book by John Thorn, 2001.
“Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.”
“Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.”
“There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]”
“The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.”
“What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.”
“I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.”
“If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.”

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