People under pressure don’t reflect: to run fast, you look straight ahead — not side to side. It’s difficult to generate new ideas when focused on delivery. Innovation requires free time for thinking. The typical Agile environment creates
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“Give every sane and rational person a big red button to push to achieve instantaneous omnipotence, and all of them would quickly jam their fingers down on it.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
“I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045. The nonbiological intelligence created in that year will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today.”
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
― The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
“By failing to engage it in intellectually challenging activities, your brain will fail to grow new connections, and it will indeed become disorganized and ultimately dysfunctional. The converse is also true for both body and brain. If someone who has not been physically active for a sustained period starts a program of physical therapy and regular exercise, she can regain her muscle mass and tone within a matter of months. The same thing is true of your brain.”
― Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
― Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
“Transhumanists have a unique definition: Death is a malfunction of the human experience.”
― The Transhumanist Wager
― The Transhumanist Wager
“Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible”
― The Fountains of Paradise
― The Fountains of Paradise
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