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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."
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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."


"We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light."


"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."


"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."


"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence."
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