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in the country of the blind, would be the one-eyed man being stoned to death. How dare he be different.
“Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.”
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“Sixty-some years ago, biochemical organisms began to assemble digital computers. Now digital computers are beginning to assemble biochemical organisms. Viewed from a distance, this looks like part of a life cycle. But which part? Are biochemical organisms the larval phase of digital computers? Or are digital computers the larval phase of biochemical organisms?”
― Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
― Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
“An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field. “How interesting,” observed the astronomer, “all Scottish sheep are black!” To which the physicist responded, “No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!” The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, “In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.”
― The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
― The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
“Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't”
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“It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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