"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.“
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"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
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"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
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"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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