Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.
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Related I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions ar... ANTOINE LAVOISIER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bu... ROSALIND WISEMAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this plane... DAISAKU IKEDA It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plen... GEOFF MULGAN So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfort... HERBERT CROLY We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward,... JEREMY IRONS Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile... KHALIL GIBRAN Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile... KAHLIL GIBRAN If I have 10,000 machines, I can set up a policy, one time, to block a given application. And that w... AUSTIN WILSON The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah'... ADAM HAMILTON When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity,... RAM DASS We have to rub shoulders with other lawyers across the globe to know how they deal with vast legal i... TOM OJIENDA The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It hol... ADA LOVELACE Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100%... AUBREY DE GREY We're given a deadline that's an arbitrary date to replace our machines when we didn't have any prob... LARRY POTTS Lunchroom economic conversations are inevitably graced with at least one statement from an old-timer... KEVIN HASSETT Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you ... SALMAN RUSHDIE You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desp... G.K. CHESTERTON My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grim... GUNTER GRASS As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of the... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get acros... EMERIL LAGASSE It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway ... 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BOB GELDOF People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they&... IOAN GRUFFUDD We are pleased to have reached an amicable settlement with [Research In Motion]. DONALD E. STOUT Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in ... ARTHUR HILLER Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and of... DARRYL PINCKNEY At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-... ROB SHEFFIELD It's time we deal with this issue. The status quo is no longer an option for us all the courts have ... BILL WEBB It's time we deal with this issue. The status quo is no longer an option for us all the courts ha... BILL WEBB You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them to... MARCEL PROUST I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want t... PABLO SCHREIBER We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot ... JOKO BECK Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably mis... THOMAS R. INSEL God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whate... JOYCE MEYER They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in do... NICOLE KIDMAN My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature. HIAM ABBASS One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these painti... BOB ROSS Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towa... RUDOLF ARNHEIM If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Probably not all the employees will be going with us. For at least the next year there probably won'... ED WATSON Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A... DEE DEE MYERS Whenever we do a story or we show the monster or we find the hatch, that all has to be consistent wi... DAMON LINDELOF Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that 'many of us have a road that r... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT Whatever kind of object … we are at any time conscious of, we are always at the same time consciou... LUDWIG FEUERBACH For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will ... WILLIAM AMES Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the d... TED DEKKER In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out,... MICHAEL KORDA I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are ... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom... LESLEY MANVILLE „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund MARLEN HAUSHOFER Whatever happens, and you kind of deal with the circumstances that you are dealt with. I think, at t... BILL COWHER At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a... IQBAL ATHAS Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, peopl... ISIAH WHITLOCK, JR. The chips are in production, the machines aren't. 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PAOLO BACIGALUPI Is he laughing with you or at you? If you have to ask then likely your being laughed at BRENT M. JONES You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. CHRISTO To be on set with Tom Hiddlestone and Hugh Laurie is just fantastic. But during 'Homeland,' ... DAVID HAREWOOD I am an originalist, to begin with. So, I am a constitutional conservative. I believe that the Const... EVAN MCMULLIN They are suspicious in nature because they were set within minutes of each other. We do have some de... YVONNE MARTINEZ Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us. ARTHUR C. NIELSEN In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the... JOHN BURDETT "Kindness is the outstretched hand that reaches out to help another when they are in need." ~ Tom Ba... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN As we look at the vast array of energy problems that are facing the world, most of them have to do w... DENNIS HAYES Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Inter... RON WYDEN Hopefully we'll figure out how to get 'Iron Man 2' going, and I'll be involved with ... JON FAVREAU Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - ... KAREN JOY FOWLER It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting... JON KATZ In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrigh... SAM CLAFLIN (The) vast majority of the machines infected...are home computers. Nothing will happen on them until... MIKKO HYPPONEN When people see my show, they may not laugh out loud as they do with some of the classic comedians, ... 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