"All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control."

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Source : Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.96, A&C Black

Chauncey Wright

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“Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an intelligence explosion and the intelligence of man would be left behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man ever need make.”

Source : Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.20, OUP Oxford
“If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.”
“A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.”
“Children, being small and weak, have little market value.”
“I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then.”
“I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.”
“Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.”
“George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.”

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