A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence,… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
If we meet and I say, "Hi," That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization. — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
“And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I do want to once again speak directly to the Iranian people. Yours is a great civilization with a vibrant culture that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Will and Wheel (The Sonnet) Where there is a will, there is a wheel. Where there is intent, there is upliftment. Where… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image