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The lowest common denominator is all too common.
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Everything interesting starts out as odd. Odd is the gateway to opportunity.
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The human role in the wars of the future will be to ask who won.
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Senior moments can be very empowering. Just because I’m used up and not good for much doesn’t mean I’m used up and not good for much. That’s ageism.
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Creativity arises from technique. You can't push the state-of-the-art unless you know the state-of-the-art.
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Merit goes with service, not pay.
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Some AI is stronger on the A than the I.
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As we converse with computers, there comes a need for a contraction of 'she/he/it', most naturally 'sheit'. With an emphasis on the 'h', to reflect the dual genders. A particularly able instance thereof might be termed 'deep sheit'. And conversely, a potential dismissal might be referred to as 'sheit's going down'.
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In sympathy for our feathered friends, 'To kill two birds with one stone' should be 'To stone two birds with one puff.'
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We belong to the last generation that will make intellectually significant contributions. After that, the best to be hoped for is 'Not bad, for a human.' But then, if computers had to run on million year old technology, they wouldn't do so well either.
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Immortality is for people who like reruns.
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A half-full theater in a big city is statistically amazing. Only a small change in the probability of any inhabitant being in the theater would have it empty or overflowing.
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Warfare is the malignant use of directed energy. Inter-stellar warfare favors the defense, because an intrenched inhabitant has an enormous energy advantage over an approaching invader. So inter-stellar government will probably be federation or feudalism.
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Genies will come out of bottles, whether you want them to or not.
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The spirit is willing, the exchequer is weak.
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The poet's domain is the whole of life. Not just their own.
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When summarizing something difficult, more accurate, more concise, more widely understandable: pick any two.
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Long-ago, long-ago wasn't long-ago.
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He's not at his best, and he never was.
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Sometimes a decision is really just a fact.
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You can't drag people into leadership.
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It really isn't the thought that counts.
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Of death and taxes, death will be cured first.
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You can't be your best if you don't screw anything up.
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Some of my poems have to be my lesser poems. I'm composing those first, to get them out of the way.
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He was half Scottish, and the other half was Scotch.
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A lot of my poems are silly. But people need things that are silly, as there are so many that aren't.
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A palm tree is not a tree. Imagine your embarrassment if your whole life you had thought you were a tree, and find out you are an overgrown blade of grass.
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The first time I saw Newton's laws, it struck me that they were very simple. What's the big deal? It is that there are many things that are simple, and very few of them are right. The difficulty is not the solution, it is the act of finding it.
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The reasons for failure are always boring.
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