"An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs."

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Source : Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

K. Eric Drexler

#Running Quotes #Technology Quotes #Race Quotes

“Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair [of St. Peter]; they are by no means ignorant of the fact that religion itself can never totter and fall while this Chair remains intact, the Chair which rests on the rock which the proud gates of hell cannot overthrow and in which there is the whole and perfect solidity of the Christian religion.”
“I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my future.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.”
“Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.”
“But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?”
“I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.”
“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.”
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatusâ€”the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.”

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