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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death -however mutable man may be able to make them- our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
— Stanley Kubrick interview in Playboy magazine 1968, However vast the darkness...
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The synthetic cell is called Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 and is the proof of principle that genomes can be designed in the computer, chemically made in the laboratory and transplanted into a recipient cell to produce a new self-replicating cell controlled only by the synthetic genome.
— J. Craig Venter Institute press release, JCVI: First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell Constructed by J. Craig Venter Institute Researchers
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It’s the same thing with your desires, your feelings, and your thought. The familiarity and the human aspects of these things vanish on examination.
— Paul Valéry, The OpenEnded Group - On the example set by Paul Valéry
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Software is not like a house or a building, but like an architect, a programmer builds things for a dedicated purpose, has to respect the whims of the customer, and yet, inevitably, despite regulation towards uniformity that may exist, does it in a distinctive, personal style.
— def0, Software engineering bromides revisited
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Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered ‘useless,’ will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously.
— John Maeda, http://spacecollective.org/rene/4708/The-universe-will-fly-like-a-bird
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I think that it’s entirely plausible that if someone were to take the Algol-68 spec, redraft it in modern terminology (types instead of modes, names instead of variables, etc), update some of the odder areas such as transput, give it a catchy Web-2.0 name and produce a decent compiler for it, then it would be heralded as the next great development in programming languages. Which is kind of depressing…
— David Given, Re: Coroutines and Go
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But isn’t this part of the problem? People have decided to subvert the original objectives of the Web in order to use it as yet another opaque platform.
— pboddie, Stallman: the JavaScript trap
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oq é uma horta kra?
é um campo de concentração de mato kra…
— André Durieux, Gmail - Fwd: [Ctc-alunos] Fw: "VÍDEOS E DEBATE - Alimentação Consciente"
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
— Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
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I react strongly to images that have no obvious answer to their mysteries. If there is a key to their construction, they are simply illustration. Meaning is meaningless to me. I do not care for symbolism and I paint what I paint without meditating on a story
— Zdzisław Beksiński, http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9424
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Photographer is somebody who is inspired by the surrounding reality and who’s transforming the reality using photographic equipment. I was always inspired by what’s within me, and nobody has ever invented a camera capable to photograph thoughts.
— Zdzislaw Beksinski, Zdzislaw Beksinski's Quotes @ PhotoQuotes.com
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