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“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.”

Years Humans Mean Eras Thirty Technological Thirty Years Singularity Superhuman Human Intelligence

Author:Vernor Vinge

“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 the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.”

Source: The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

“Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.”

“The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.”

Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.”

Persons Said Three Father Numbers One Thing Produce Son Connections Unity Substance Singularity

Book:Tertullian Collection [2 Books]

Source: Tertullian Collection [2 Books]

“My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”

Has Beens Light Greater Progress Meat Vegetarian Vegan Comprehension Singularity Clearness

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.”

Flesh Vegetarian Vegan Vegetarianism Singularity Vegetarian Health

Book:Autobiography and Other Writings

Source: Autobiography and Other Writings

“The Armenians will willingly harbor revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.”

“The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'”

Stories Powerful Most Powerful Singularity Powerful Words

Author:Pat Conroy

“Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.”

“In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.”

Real Ends Form Law Universe Space Break Boundaries Breaking Down Singularity Space Time

Book:The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

Source: The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

“Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.”

Should Ideas Progress Spread Radical Faster Symptoms Corny Commonplace Singularity

Author:Vernor Vinge

“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 inherent in technology.”

Humans Natural Technology Possibility Consequence Inevitable Inherent Singularity Competitiveness

Author:Vernor Vinge

“For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.”

Inspirational Years Looks Said Wanted Together Lying Felt Accepting Moral Pieces Wander Catastrophe Torn Relatable Singularity Infirmity Resigned Debris

Book:Notebooks, 1951-1959

Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959

“A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.”

Mind Successful Products Like You Perception Concepts Program Branding Singularity

Author:Al Ries

“1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.”

Enough Moon Mathematics Mathematical Bother Nasty Newton Singularity

Author:Edward Witten

“Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.”

“It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you don’t worry about what people think of you.”

“Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.”

Opinion Convinced Conformity Conform Ruined Nonconformity Singularity

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.”

Home Difficult Crime Commonplace Singularity

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.”

Writing Happens Loses Particular Genius Symbols Singularity

Author:Alfred Kazin

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