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“Entropy is the price of structure.”
― Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“A radically unconventional future cannot be accommodated within the framework of plans made for a different world.”
― K. Eric Drexler, Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

“Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can be forecast, a few decades into the future. AI in this sense is unfalsifiable and thus--according to the accepted rules of the scientific method--unscientific.”
― Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do