"Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s."
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"The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue."
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"There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth."
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"When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise."
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"Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence."
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"Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works."
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"The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time."
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"Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly"
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"Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end."
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"How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?"
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"We can influence the future but not see it."
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