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

Progress, Ideas, Radical, Will

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

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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"When you don't come closer to the goal and don't make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"Nothing happens until something moves."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence " it is a threat to progress " it is a threat to greatness."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Failure is only a step towards success."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Spare the stress on your neck muscles... Looking backward takes more energy, it's more painful than looking forward! Go ahead!"

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"And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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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."

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

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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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will."

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"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."

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"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."

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

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

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