Singularity Quotes - page 3

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. (Jean Genet)
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes." View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
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. View quote
Vernor Vinge
Simple old-fashioned death, the kind that predated the singularity, used to be the inevitable halting state for all life-forms. Fairy tales about afterlives notwithstanding. View quote
Charles Stross
Talk you of tradition in middle of singularity. View quote
Charles Stross
Singularity in the right hath ruined many happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Because it is founded on the search for universal laws, it cannot deal with singularity, that is, with uniqueness. The universe is a unique event and a unique story, and so far we are the unique point of that story. But unique events and stories are the domain of poetry, not science. View quote
Václav Havel
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. View quote
Bob Marley
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. View quote
Henry Lawson
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The paradox of monotheism is that the desert God, refuting all other gods, demands acknowledgment within emptiness. The paradox of monotheism is that there is no paradox-only unfathomable singularity. (Richard Rodriguez)
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity. View quote
Winston Churchill
Many writers believe that voice, which is character-based, is the same as style, which I believe is more author-based. The writer almost always has her own style, but I believe that in addition to being drawn to a particular author's style, readers are also drawn to the singularity of the fictive voice, which is somewhat variant from work to work... View quote
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