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"All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem."
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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."
"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say."
"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."
"Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness."
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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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