"Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing."

-- Douglas Lenat

#Writing Quotes #Information Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.”
“Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.”
“Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.”
“We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mortimer Duke". "Trading Places", 1983.
“One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.”
“We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.”
“Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.”

Source : Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.44, Chelsea Green Publishing
“It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.”

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