Singularity Quotes - Page 2

• Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

  Brendon Burchard

  Meaningful, Challenges, Demand

  Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated.

  Bob Marley

  Jamaica, Rasta, Way

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• What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Struggle, Jamaica

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• One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Technology, Race, Giving

  "John von Neumann, 1903-1957". "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society" 64, no.3, part 2, May, 1958.

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• When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

  Brian Cox

  Fall, Black, Holes

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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.

  Vernor Vinge

  Ideas, Progress, Corny

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• A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product.

  Al Ries

  Successful, Perception, Mind

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• The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

  Pat Conroy

  Powerful, Stories, Most Powerful

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• Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

  Bob Marley

  Struggle, Men, Jamaica

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• The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Home, Crime, Difficult

  "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891)

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• Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

  Jean Genet

  Profound, Solitude, Secret

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Opinion, Conformity, Ruined

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.278, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

  Vernor Vinge

  Space, Understanding, Black

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• Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to interface with and combine ourselves with machines and machinery and electronics - those will all be opt-in moments. Would you choose to have some sort of brain implant? Would you choose to have Google Glasses installed in your eyes? It's all an approach; it's all a glide path to the moment of genuine singularity; genuine artificial intelligence.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Eye, Opportunity, Glasses

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Race, Groups

  Source: medium.com

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• A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.476, Penguin

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• The true human being is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.

  David Zindell

  Stars, Dancing, Infinite

  "The Broken God". Book by David Zindell, 1992.

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• Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

  Charles Stross

  Smart, Matter, Begets

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.344, Penguin

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• A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

  Terence McKenna

  Broken, Miracle

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• A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

  Kip Thorne

  Ocean, Air, Space

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• Regardless of whether you believe in the Singularity, you will most likely experience the benefits of it. But we don't really know.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Believe, Benefits, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Armenians will willingly harbor
  revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

  Mark Sykes

  Pride, Race, Giving

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• It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you don’t worry about what people think of you.

  Forrest Griffin

  Girlfriend, Cancer, Rip

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• My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vegetarianism, Flesh, Vegan

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Light, Progress, Meat

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