"But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will."

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Source : "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Article by Vernor Vinge, for the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, www.wired.com. 1993.

Vernor Vinge

#Singularity Quotes #Technological Quotes

“I was on the verge of quittingâ€¦ The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.”
“For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.”

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“When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.”

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“I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.”

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“It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.”
“A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.”
“Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.”
“When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.”

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