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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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"You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying."

"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that."

"We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion."

"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."

"I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating."

"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."

"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."

"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
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"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."


"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."


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


"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."


"The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity."


"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
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