Quotes About Singularity

The clue to unification is the universe itself. "Uni" means "one". The universe is the one thing that exists. It is everything that exists.

Fevvers felt that shivering sensation which always visited her when mages, wizards, impresarios came to take away her singularity as though it were their own invention, as though they believed she depended on their imaginations n order to be a woman. She felt herself turning, willy-nilly, from a woman into an idea.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

Every one of them is different. In fact, brains are like faces in that no two are ever alike.

No one goalkeeper is like the next. We all have different techniques and we all play the game differently.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

I regard longings for twinship or emotional kinship as being reactive to emotional trauma, with its accompanying feelings of singularity, estrangement, and solitude.

To be me is to be different...

One way of emphasizing the singularity of the recent past is [..] to observe that the total number of humans ever to have lived is estimated at around (a bit less than) 100 billion. One of Walt Whitman's poems has a memorable image—thinking of all past people lined up in orderly columns behind those living—'row upon row rise the phantoms behind us'. Actually, looking over our shoulder, we would see only around 15 rows.

He gave such a vulnerable impression. He resembled the leaf that a little boy strikes down from its branch with a stick, because its singularity makes it conspicuous.

Being different is really cool. And eccentricity is very hip.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and the voice of singularity (to replenish such banality with all the élan of an emotion which belonged only to myself).

By virtue of being an -ism, pluralism is a monism.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Si l'on est différent, il est fatal qu'on soit seul.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

O ser diferente condena a uma fatal solidão.

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, have ruined me. As

Runaway biological or electronic evolution that led to a singularity event.