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Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.


Greg Egan


#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.


William J. H. Boetcker


#backbone #individual #man #men #mere

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.


Richard P. Feynman


#future #grapple #human #human race #improve

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.


Niels Bohr


#advancement #also #commentary #continue #exponential

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.


W. E. B. Du Bois


#civil #civil rights #complaint #credit #dogged

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.


Eliot Engel


#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

A picture is worth a thousand words.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#picture #picture is worth #thousand #thousand words #words

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.


Will Estes


#cities #city #day #down #epidemic

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.


Euripides


#friend #loyal #relatives #ten #thousand

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.


Chow Yun-Fat


#different ways #hong #hong kong #i #i can