My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of,… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans,… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch -… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Man is to technology what the bee is to the flower. It’s man’s intervention that allows technology to expand and evolve itself… — James Scott, Co-Founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
