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There is nothing that remains longer than its own dust.
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
“What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?”
― Permutation City
― Permutation City
“Simulated consciousness” was as oxymoronic as “simulated addition.”
― Permutation City
― Permutation City
“Suppose that there be a machine, the structure of which produces thinking, feeling, and perceiving; imagine this machine enlarged but preserving the same proportions, so you could enter it as if it were a mill. This being supposed, you might visit inside; but what would you observe there? Nothing but parts which push and move each other, and never anything that could explain perception. —Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz”
― How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
― How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
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