"The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?"

-- Vernor Vinge

#Running Quotes #Self Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.”
“Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.”
“I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.”

Source : "Pop's future" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.
“whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.”
“Don't retreat. Instead - reload!”
“Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command. So we just have to let the forgetting happen as it will; we shouldn't rush it, and we certainly should not doubt the genuineness of our forgiving if we happen to remember. The really important thing is that we have the power to forgive what we still do remember.”
“In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.”

Source : "Apple's First Amendment Argument". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sydell, www.npr.org. February 26, 2016.

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