Quotes About Singularity

Idiosyncrasy

It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else.

De perto, ninguém é normal.

All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority.

Thus, to avoid collapse a new innovation must be initiated that resets the clock, allowing growth to continue and the impending singularity to be avoided.

ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life," von Neumann explained to Stan Ulam, "gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race.

My mother has a saying: 'One is none.

We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, what a black hole is!

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

Kurzweil and other transhumanists contend that we are fast approaching a "technological singularity," a point at which AI far surpasses human intelligence and is capable of solving problems we weren't able to solve before, with unpredictable consequences for civilization and human nature.

Well you are a piece of work aren't you?

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.

There is nothing wrong being different. Being peculiar actually makes you stand out from others.

The binary at last becoming the one.

It was not exactly circular logic. More like spiral. An accepted lie that spun in upon itself until truth and fiction disappeared into a singularity of who the hell cares, as long as I'm happy?

It was not exactly circular logic. More like spiral. An accepted lie that spun in upon itself until truth and fiction disappeared into a singularity of who the hell cares, as long as I'm happy?

A cat is only itself.