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“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
― Philip K. Dick

“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
― Philip K. Dick

“The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.”
― Philip K. Dick

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
― Philip K. Dick

“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.”
― Philip Dick

“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. ”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”
― Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth

“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.'

'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.”
― Philip K. Dick, Our Friends From Frolix 8

“No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.”
― Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer

“But—let me tell you my cat joke. It's very short and simple. A hostess is giving a dinner party and she's got a lovely five-pound T-bone steak sitting on the sideboard in the kitchen waiting to be cooked while she chats with the guests in the living room—has a few drinks and whatnot. But then she excuses herself to go into the kitchen to cook the steak—and it's gone. And there's the family cat, in the corner, sedately washing it's face."

"The cat got the steak," Barney said.

"Did it? The guests are called in; they argue about it. The steak is gone, all five pounds of it; there sits the cat, looking well-fed and cheerful. "Weigh the cat," someone says. They've had a few drinks; it looks like a good idea. So they go into the bathroom and weigh the cat on the scales. It reads exactly five pounds. They all perceive this reading and a guest says, "okay, that's it. There's the steak." They're satisfied that they know what happened, now; they've got empirical proof. Then a qualm comes to one of them and he says, puzzled, "But where's the cat?”
― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

“You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Emigrate or Degenerate.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?”
― Charles Stross, Accelerando

“Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.”
― Charles Stross, Accelerando

“Science advances one funeral at a time.”
― Max Planck

“They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.”
― Charles Stross, Halting State

“Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…”
― Charles Stross, Halting State

“Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.”
― Kurt Cobain

“It’s no magic bullet and cannot solve every problem. In further experiments in the maze domain, we generated hundreds of random mazes of different difficulties and applied both novelty search and objective-based search to solving them. The trend that resulted from the data was that as mazes grow increasingly complicated, both novelty search and objective-based search can fail to solve them. However, objective-based search’s abilities taper off much faster [55].”
― Kenneth O. Stanley, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

“Instead of judging every activity for its potential to succeed, we should judge our projects for their potential to spawn more projects.”
― Kenneth O. Stanley, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective