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"We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light."
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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."
"Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'."
"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."
"Compete with yourself, you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!"
"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."
"The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else."
"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
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"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."
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
"The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being."
"And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty."
"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."
"Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection."
"Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace."
"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity."
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