In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I am very proud of my role in 'Singularity.' It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going… — Ron Currie Jr 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It is natural but wrong to visualize the singularity as a kind of pregnant dot hanging in a dark, boundless void. But… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“us. We aren’t much in our singularity. Bring those points of light together, into a crew who works for the good of… — Randolph Lalonde Copy Share Image
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite… — Henry Lawson 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
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
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Yet if we are to take the Lacanian account of singularity seriously, we must admit that what really counts in life is… — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor,… — Michael Shurtleff 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
“Someday they would discover that the stars were not sacred, but made from the same material as their bodies. They would learn… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
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
And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“In some universes, all possible pasts funnel towards a single fixed ending, Ω. It you are of millenarian bent, you might call… — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are… — George Pattison Copy Share Image