“One can, to be sure, program a digital machine in such a way as to be able to carry on a conversation with it, as if with an intelligent partner. The machine will employ, as the need arises, the pronoun “I” and all its grammatical inflections. This, however, is a hoax! The machine will still be closer to a billion chattering parrots—howsoever brilliantly trained the parrots be—than to the simplest, most stupid man. It mimics the behavior of a man on the purely linguistic plane and nothing more.”
― A Perfect Vacuum
― A Perfect Vacuum
“Property is theft!”
― Quest-ce que la propriété? ou Recherches sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement
― Quest-ce que la propriété? ou Recherches sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement
“Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.”
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“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”
― A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
― A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
“No insults, please!" said Pugg. "For I am not your usual uncouth pirate, but refined and with a Ph.D., and therefore extremely high-strung.”
― The Cyberiad
― The Cyberiad
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