#logical

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. ↗

— Dee Hock

#acceptance #any #around #centuries #device

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#awaiting #decide #destiny #ecological #exhaust

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. ↗

— Colin Firth

#almost #because #choices #comedy #errors

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#capacity #change #future #limited #man

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#also #effects #hazards #increase #our

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#singularity #technological #will

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. ↗

— David Walliams

#dark #fear #i #my own #myself

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. ↗

— Rebecca West

#camel #great #great art #intelligence #logical

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#media #very #wary