"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
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"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.“
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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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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
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