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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
    -- Mark Twain
"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
    -- Luigi Mangione
"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
    -- Luigi Mangione

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"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."
    -- Bertrand Russell
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
    -- Ambrose Redmoon
"Many meat eaters call themselves environmentalist and supporters of green living and try to plant trees, use gas efficient vehicles, less plastic bags or solar energy but do not want to pay attention to one of the most important sources of pollution and destruction of environment: their diet!"
    -- Nasim Najafi Aghdam


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Raymond Kurzweil Quotes

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Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order...I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.Get Image

...a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Although neither utopian nor dystopian, this epoch will transform the concepts that we rely on to give meaning to our lives, from our business models to the cycle of human life, including death itself. Understanding the Singularity will alter our perspective on the significance of our past and thGet Image

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies, and easily discount / dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.Get Image

Exponential growth looks like nothing is happening, and then suddenly you get this explosion at the end.Get Image

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.Get Image




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