We’re coming into a world where, if you can’t perceive your individual threat mannequin, you are dead.” –Dymaxion “A very good pure researcher will, over the course of his/her/its career, get published a few instances, see his/her/its work plagiarized, stolen, or in any other case borrowed by the business sector, and can be rewarded with an growing sense of bitterness as he/she/it watches the universe proceed to spin down entropically in a number of senses of the phrase. It’s a few of the only pleasure he/she/it can derive from the quest for discoveries untainted by sensible software.” –Howard Taylor “Crocodiles are simple. Along with that I think apart from selecting optimism as a well being measure, it is also a rebellion in opposition to the dominant pessimism of our tradition.” –Robert Anton Wilson “Reality at all times requires human surrealism to improve it.” –Lodewijk André de la Porte “The percentages of the American authorities granting any state permission to go its own approach are on par with profitable the lottery whereas getting hit by a meteor whereas seeing Bigfoot while discovering gluten-free pizza that tastes like the real thing.” –Mike Krumboltz “John, I am the ghost of an previous lady with one arm who’s dressed like a clown.
One among lately we must always admit that.” –Quinn Norton “I’ve a ethical objection to issues that do not have sufficient garlic in them.” –Amberite “Wait, are these dolls anatomically right? My foremost argument is that the US (and other governments) are pursuing applied sciences which might be potentially best in destabilizing their very own societies.” –Anders Sandberg “When you buy a service that does not have transparency, do not anticipate transparency.” –Alex Rubenstein “That is what it takes to write a cheerful science fiction story: Throw out the whole lot you find out about human nature, and change it with rainbows and puffy kittens.” –Peter Watts “A scientist, like a warrior, should cherish no view. It does not matter if one thing is a damaging sum game, so long as some believe they’ll win it.” –Rudiger Koch “With superhuman knowledge, there should go equally nice compassion and tolerance.” –Arthur C. Clarke “The difference between being a beginner and being on the leading edge is only that a newbie accepts not understanding as proof of not being able to know.” –Anonymous “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” –H.G. Wells “You can’t plan the longer term.
In an age of sufficiently advanced technology, the kinds of lessons we used to be taught from history we should now learn from fantasy and sci-fi.” –Meng Weng Wong “Witness the facility of this totally armed and operational bureaucracy.” –The Doctor “We had a tripwire in there, however it turned into a noose.” –Anonymous Flight Engineer “Walter’s pondering too loudly. Maybe someday we can collectively and consensually engineer dumbness from the human state, however for now we’re stuck with it.” –Khannea Suntzu “So, let me get this straight: There are cops guarding gasoline stations in New York City. Unlike the English and Welsh consultation, the one for Scotland dealt with the issue of same-sex marriage in a religious context. I now work with girls youthful than my breast implants.” –Nina Hartley “Mostly, working with Joe (JMS) was only one large prank.” –Patricia Tallman “Propose to a man any principle, or an instrument, nonetheless admirable, and you’ll observe the entire effort is directed to find a problem, a defect, or an impossibility in it. Should you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it unimaginable: If you peel a potato with it earlier than his eyes, he will declare it ineffective, because it won’t slice a pineapple.” –Charles Babbage “Within the nineties, solely the shameless opportunists ran the asylum: now it’s the fucking lunatics.” –Peter Watts “Don’t see why of us are all up in arms about this.
Why would that seem strange to me? Look – it’s a pop-up, only as a industrial.” –Lyssa “Anarchism: The exhausting-headed realization, based on five thousand years of expertise, that we cannot entrust the administration of our lives to rulers.” –Mark Stoval “The hallmark of someone who does probably not believe in free speech is when they declare they do, adopted by a ‘but’, followed by efforts to elucidate why the views they embrace must be permitted, while the views they despise shouldn’t be.” –Glenn Greenwald “Miracles begin to occur when you give as a lot energy to your desires as you do to your fears.” –Richard Wilkins “I did not meet a single particular person I did not like. A horrible little rat-a vile, cringing man stuffed with paranoia and resentment towards everything on the planet, who the better he is treated by that world (which adulates him and showers him with fame & fortune), merely despises it the extra while sadistically exploiting what little power he has in petty self-destructive vendettas; a man who will viciously mock and criticize everyone else to your face, leaving you with the certainty that he will start doing so to you too as soon as you leave the room; a small cowardly man whose fixed rape fantasies while hiding behind his sketchpad haven’t resulted in any precise misconduct (as far as we all know), largely as a result of women could punch him within the nose & make him cry4; a man who, regardless of residing in France for 33 years now (approaching half his life), apparently refuses to learn any French; a man who spews not just lazy racist stereotypes & the dumbest type of liberal shtick you usually would have to seek out in the comments part of Daily Kos, however each different sort of X-ism in some unspecified time in the future (untroubled by any sort of consistency); in short, a man who claims to hold up a mirror to a sick society, but held it the unsuitable way.