“Politics always change. Stories
never do.”
“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
“You pay for what you get, you own
what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to
you.”
“Adults are the real monsters.”
-Stephen King, It
“As soon as you finish a film, people want you to talk about it...and it’s, um...the film IS the talking.”
“As soon as you finish a film, people want you to talk about it...and it’s, um...the film IS the talking.”
-David Lynch
“On your way to oblivion...always
take the scenic route.”
-Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger
“It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its own decay. This longing had historically been the domain of religion, and was now the increasingly fertile terrain of technology.”
“It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its own decay. This longing had historically been the domain of religion, and was now the increasingly fertile terrain of technology.”
“This is one of the problems with
reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.”
“The odds seemed pretty long from
where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself, the history
of science was in many ways an almanac of highly unlikely victories.”
“These robots are literally
inhuman, and yet I react no differently to their stumblings and topplings than
I would to the pratfalls of a fellow human. I don’t imagine I would laugh at
the spectacle of a toaster falling out of an SUV, or a semiautomatic rifle
pitching over sideways from an upright position, but there is something about
these machines, their human form, with which it is possible to identify
sufficiently to make their falling deeply, horribly funny.”
“Humans, after all, weren’t actively
hostile toward most of the species we’d made extinct over the millennia of our
ascendance; they simply weren’t part of our design. The same could turn out to
be true of superintelligent machines, which would stand in a similar kind of
relationship to us as we ourselves did to the animals we bred for food, or the
ones who fared little better for all that they had no direct dealings with us
at all.”
“This was what we did as a species,
after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.”
-Mark O’Connell, To Be a Machine
“Legend has it that when a puzzled
student told him he had read ‘Absalom! Absalom!’ three times and still didn’t
understand it, Faulkner told him, ‘Read it a fourth time.’”
“In the first ten years of the
Alderman regime [circa 1915], only 1,145 of the 2,241 first-year men returned
for the second year.”
-Virginius Dabney, Mr. Jefferson’s
University
“I guess I'm just an old mad
scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen
atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned
into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.”
“The fact is that all of us have
only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you
are.”
“He bit his lip in a manner which
immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.”
“Love is not the dying moan of a
distant violin ..it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring”
“Do you know anything at all that
nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit
tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical
supervisor on a million dollar movie.”
“Learning is what most adults will
do for a living in the 21st century.”
“I'd horsewhip you if I had a
horse.”
“The main obligation is to amuse
yourself.”
-S.J. Perelman
“If a man can be corrupted by a few
books, I doubt if there was anything there to begin with.”
-Ray Russell, The Case Against
Satan
“Rome wasn’t built in A.D.”
“Your talk," I said, "is
surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
“Another day gone and no jokes.”
“Hell goes round and round. In
shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly
unbearable.”
“Put a thief among honest men and
they will eventually relieve him of his watch.”
“When I want to read anything,
however, I usually write it meself.”
“Having considered the matter in,
of course, all its aspects, I have decided that there is no excuse for poetry.”
“It cannot too often be pointed out
that women are people.”
-Flann O’Brien
“I’m happy. Hope you’re happy,
too.”
-David Bowie, “Ashes to Ashes”
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Yay, you read the transhumanism book!
ReplyDeleteYes! And I even understood most of the words in it! Thanks for the recommendation!
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