A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. — Ted Morgan Copy Share Image
“from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Overall, 'Singularity' has a certain lightness to it compared to 'Immunity.' It's less closed off; it doesn't have that claustrophobic sound. — Jon Hopkins 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Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Thus, to avoid collapse a new innovation must be initiated that resets the clock, allowing growth to continue and the impending singularity… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all...… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“Physicists define the Big Bang as a singularity. It is a point at which all the known laws of nature did not… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity,… — Vernor Vinge 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
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
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
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
“NASA are idiots. They want to send canned meat to Mars!” Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The Armenians will willingly harbor revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about… — Mark Sykes Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“I mean, how do you think a computer would feel when it wakes up to find itself captured and controlled by primitive… — David Lagercrantz 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
The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image