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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
~ Vance Packard
Hysteria
Might
Monotony
Rock
Roll
Up
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The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
~ Vance Packard
Christian
Computer
Incomprehensible
Notion
Possibility
Redemption
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
~ Vance Packard
Ability
Between
Creative
Difference
Express
Hack
His
Indirectly
Man
Meanings
Powerful
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
~ Vance Packard
Billionaire
Millionaire
Son
Tell
You
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
~ Vera Brittain
Because
Believed
Break
Court
Divorced
Given
He
Husband
Husband And Wife
Know
Marriage
Nobody
Official
Ought
Read
Reading
Really
Reasons
She
Talk
Talking
Up
Were
Whatever
While
Who
Wife
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
~ Vera Brittain
Am
Friend
I Am
Meek
Never
Part
Possession
Profession
Your
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
~ Vera Brittain
Executive
Expression
Human
Immaturity
Politics
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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
~ Vera Brittain
Abide
Appreciated
Ask
Beauty
Except
May
Reward
See
Things
Those
Which
Who
Will
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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.
~ Vernor Vinge
Comfortable
Events
I Think
Instead
More
Optimism
Rampant
Regarding
Remove
Sometimes
Technological
Think
Thousand
Thousand Years
Transcendental
Twenty
Were
Years
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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.
~ Vernor Vinge
Acts
Adapt
Animals
Case
Faster
Inventions
Make
Natural
Natural Selection
Often
Own
Problems
Selection
Than
Work
World
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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
Another
Become
Commonplace
Even
Ever
Faster
Ideas
Most
Progress
Quickly
Radical
Should
Singularity
Spread
Symptom
Themselves
Toward
Will
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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.
~ Vernor Vinge
Ability
Access
Achieved
Communicate
Every
Every Time
Improved
Increase
Information
Intelligence
Natural
Others
Our
Over
Sense
Some
Time
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
~ Vernor Vinge
Happen
Singularity
Technological
Will
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
~ Vernor Vinge
Avalanche
Even
Largest
Small
Small Things
Things
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
~ Vernor Vinge
Across
Approach
How
Human
Singularity
Spread
View
Will
World
World View
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
~ Vernor Vinge
Am
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
I Am
Intelligence
Interface
Network
Potential
Profound
Recognize
Research
Something
Suggesting
Wild
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
~ Vernor Vinge
Argue
Change
Comparable
Earth
Edge
Human
Human Life
Life
Paper
Rise
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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.
~ Vernor Vinge
Above
Argued
Cannot
Coming
Competitiveness
Consequence
Humans
Inevitable
Inherent
Natural
Possibilities
Prevent
Singularity
Technology
We Cannot
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
~ Vernor Vinge
Cases
Developers
Even
Most
Naturally
Recognized
Something
Very
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
~ Vernor Vinge
Agreement
Central
Exist
Existence
Fact
General
Importance
In Fact
Minds
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