“ When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in. Richie Norton
“ Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some ki… Ned Vizzini
“ The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Georges Bataille
“ It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places. Jeff Ament
“ What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of info… Seth Lloyd
“ It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle.… Ray Kurzweil
