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“Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.”

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“Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.”

Left Grows Answers Behinds Wise Creation Creatures Computer Intelligent Assuming Analysis Irrelevant Left Behind Offspring Hallmark Dementia Verify Surpassing Bootstraps

Book:Firefall

Source: Firefall

“Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.”

States Reality Force Citizens Police Management Rose Alternatives Threatening Brutes Contagious Police State Brute Force Memes Perceived Reality

Book:Blindsight

Source: Blindsight

“But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.”

Equal Patterns Comprehension Matching

Book:Firefall

Source: Firefall

“What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?”

Differences Knowing Alive Not Knowing

Book:Firefall

Source: Firefall

“What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?”

Values Survival Sunset Obsessing

Book:Firefall

Source: Firefall

“Most nations have some type of creation story.”

Stories Nations Creation Type Creation Stories

Author:Fred Van Lente

“You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.”

Knows May Use Lasts Certain Know How Dollars Loan

Book:The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilerness

Source: The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilerness

“The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.”

Men Earth He Man Travel Survival Independent Fellows Independence Prepared Weather Camps Hiking Camping Preparedness Backpacking Campers

Author:Horace Kephart

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