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Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village.: Morrow Mayo
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.: Lyall Watson
Can machines have souls? You ask me that and I ask you if souls can learn. If they can't -- then of what importance is this concept? Sterile and empty and unchangeable for eternity. How much more preferable it is to understand that we create ourselves. Slowly and painfully, shaped basically by our genes, modified steadily by everything we see and hear and attempt to understand. That is the reality and that is how we function, learn and develop.: Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky, The Turing Option
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left. Excited a few men in the meantime.: Patrick Macnee, reminiscing on Diana Rigg's involvement in "The Avengers" (interview, Washington Post, Sept. 6, 1987)
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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