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"Expectation works in mysterious ways--and totally unconsciously."
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."
"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
"Expectation creates the reality."
"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
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"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."
"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down."
"You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school."
"The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature-all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct."
"This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right."
"They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific... We've had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it's good for, and what it's not good for. It's time for a change."
"We have created a man with not one brain but two. This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal - the only peripheral terminal - for the new computer. And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it."
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