Why are you, you?‏

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If love is the answer,

could you please

rephrase the question.

Lily Tomlin

Science is organized knowledge.

Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

The future enters into us in order 

to transform itself in us long before it happens

Rainer Maria Rilke

Suppose someone were to say,

'imagine this butterfly exactly as it is?,

but ugly instead of beautiful.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Technology is a way of organizing the universe

so that people don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch, Homo Faber

Our machines will become much like us,

and we will become much like our machines.

(Or perhaps we are becoming machine tools).

Rodney Brooks

One of the biggest flaws 

in the common concept of future

is that the future is something 

that happens to us,

not something we create.

                Michael Anissimov

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose,

but queerer than we can suppose or imagine.

J. B. S. Haldane

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

The big feature 

of human-level intelligence

is not what it does when it works,

but what it does when it gets stuck.

Marvin Minsky

I want to do something with my life.

I want to be a cyborg.

Kevin Warwick

What is the universe doing

questioning itself via one of

its smallest products?

D. E. Jenkins

                            Anglican Theologian

The most important thing is this.

To be able at any moment

to sacrifice what we are

for what we could become.

      Charles Dubois

The role 

of the infinitely small

is infinitely large.

Louis Pasteur

What is the universe computing? 

As far as we can tell, 

it is not producing 

a single answer to a single question…. 

Instead the universe is computing itself. 

Powered by Standard Model software, 

the universe computes quantum fields, 

chemicals, bacteria, human beings, stars and galaxies. 

As it computes, it maps out its own spacetime geometry 

to the ultimate precision allowed by the laws of physics. 

Computation is existence.

Seth Lloyd & Y. Jack Ng

To become a figment of your computer's imagination.

David Victor de Transend

Godling Glossary, Definition of 'Upload'

We (may) know what we are,

but (certainly) I know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

Why are you you?

What you are looking for is who is looking.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The major advances in civilization 

all but wreck the civilization in which they occur.

Alfred North Whitehead

Progress might have been all right once,

but it has gone on too long.

Ogden Nash

First we build the tools,

then they might build us.

Marshall McLuhan

The further back you look,

the further forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

Computer science is no more about computers

than astronomy is about telescopes.

Eric Dijstrom

If an eminent… scientist 

says that something is possible,

he is almost certainly right,

but if he says that it is impossible,

he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

If little knowledge is dangerous,

where is the person who has so much

as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry

The future ain't what it used to be.

Yogi Berra

[La nostalgia ya no es lo que era, either.]

-  Excerpted Quotes from The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil