My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The true human being is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with… — David Zindell 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
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“For the first time, her singularity, the fact that she felt different from every person she knew, made sense to her, and… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
No two on earth in all things can agree; All have some darling singularity; Women and men, as well as girls and… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme… — Orlan Copy Share Image
What happens is that as the scripts are rewritten and re-edited in order to make the story more compelling, you sometimes end… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind… — Orlan Copy Share Image
We need to deal with three things that are important: first, we need a very deep reconsideration of how we are dealing… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know. — Ron Currie Jr 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
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our… — Tariq Ramadan 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
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Everytime you think of your father, you resurrect him. Why shouldn't he continue a posthuman life in this world while he's resting… — Clyde Dsouza 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
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
Singularity' goes through a process of purification and signification. If you listen to it, you can hear quite a chaotic and disruptive… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe -… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the… — George Edward Woodberry 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
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I don't think that a Singularity would be visible to those going through one. Even the most disruptive changes are not universally… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“We will still need to consider the implications of our blind faith in technology because the iGods’ promises did not point to… — Craig Detweiler 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
Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“I'm no one... I don't want to be anyone. I stepped into singularity to exist within a void. I'm no one... However,… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Time is relative, Einstein tells us. It’s an artificial construct that we have created to remind us that we are finite, mortal.… — Glen Robinson Copy Share Image
