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Singularity Quotes by Vernor Vinge
- We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition…
- Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider…
- Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
- I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities…
- But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
- How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
- The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions…
More Singularity Quotes
- No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity. — Winston Churchill
- Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. — Jean Genet
- Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very… — Charles Caleb Colton
- A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined… — Jeremy Taylor
- 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
- We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired.… — Rem Koolhaas
- There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and… — Hannah Arendt
- When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our… — Tariq Ramadan