"Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them."

-- Ray Kurzweil

#Self Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.”
“To live at all is miracle enough.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.307, Carcanet
“The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.”
“Someday we'll know if love can move a mountain.”
“Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.”
“Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.”
“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light...”
“You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.”

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