Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Collier

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

Ray Kurzweil

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

Vernor Vinge

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Bruce Sterling

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

Colin Angle

That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.

David Harvey

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

David Harvey

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

Kevin Spacey

Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be left behind,

Fareed Zakaria

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

Ray Kurzweil

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.

Kevin Kelly

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

Tom Robbins

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Al Pacino

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Chip Kidd

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

China Chow

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

Darren Shan

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

David Mitchell

If your words're true, they're armed.

David Sarnoff

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

David Puttnam

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

Catherine Booth

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.