"The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience."

-- Nathan Myhrvold

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“it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
“The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1851). “The Harmony of Interests, Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial”, p.63
“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”
“Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty”

Source : Dominic Lawson (1994). “End Game: Kasparov Vs. Short”, Harmony
“When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.”

Source : "Towards an Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 08, 1989.
“Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.”
“Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.”
“I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.”

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