You need to understand... no... wait... you don't... -Jessica Marrell Pot. Kettle. Event horizon. -Dan Martinez Glass of milk Standing in between extinction in the cold and explosive radiating growth. So the warm blood flows Through the large four-chambered heart, Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have. They Might Be Giants, Mammal I reckon there's a lot of room for a modern, scientific, rational form of mysticism that gets the experiences without the hypno-hype and extra cosmological garbage. Guru George Vi vill väcka debatt, och inte den gamla vanliga frankenstein-vi- får-inte-leka-gud debatten utan en konstruktiv debatt. And after all, why should I go to bed every night? Sleep is only a habity. Cornelius Van Horne Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious and immature. Tom Robbins To live well in the present, to live decently and humanely, _we must see into the future_ Robert Scholes, Structural Fabulation Without change, something sleeps deep inside us, and is seldom awakened. The sleeper must awaken. Duke Leto Atrides Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals. I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. Heinz Pagels, the Dreams of Reason We have just reached the outer fringes of the solar system. Can any sane man possibly argue that we should stop there? Hugh Maclennan It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God -- but to create him. Arthur C. Clarke Scientia sine arte nihil est; ars sine scientia nihil est. The thpusand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. Nietzsche Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. Nietzsche We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. Lynn Wjite Jr. "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis" Science V 155 3765 10 March 1967 pp 1203--1207 In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences. Robert Ingersoll (Lectures and Essays, 3d series, Some Reasons Why, iii) Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Nietzsche Hittils har man antagit att människan alltid föds med två armar, två ben, två kön som gifter sig, lever ihop livet ut tills de blir sjuka och dör. Transhumanismen ifrågasätter detta, och menar att vi snart har tekniken att ändra enstaka eller alla punkter ovan. Vad som är mänskligt är inte längre något självklart, utan något som avgörs av våra värderingar och handlingar. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov They must often change, who would be constanmt in happiness or wisdom. Confucius A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or tast not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope Obedience to law is liberty. Suspicion breeds confidence. Don't suspect a friend. Report him. The truth shall make you free. Information is the key to prosperity. Be safe. Be suspicious. Trust in haste. Regret at leisure. Who can you trust? Power today. Pleasure tomorrow. Consumers for Christ. Hope is our business Practice creates perfection Perfection creates power Power conquers law Law creates heaven A helpful reminder from Toshiba I am not an animal, I am a MACHINE Quicksilver For a successful technology, reality must take precendence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard F. Feynman Maybe we're just lucky to live in a universe composed by a divine Bach. Perhaps next doors, the inhabitants of a John Cage universe muddle along in chaos. Michael Weiss Think until it hurts. Roy Thompson There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacs are _not_ part of "Nature" -- but beavers and their dams _are_. Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love All that is human must retogerade if it do not advance. Edward Gibbon The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. Frank Herbert Those who will not reason Perish in the act; Those who will not act Perish for that reason. W.H.Auden .That is the promise of real science, which cannot allow wish to rule mind, but nonetheless finds unendingly wonderful things. Philip Morrison The Future is Fun! The Future is Fair! You May Already Have One! You May Already Be There! Att förstå hur tillvaron fungerar är viktigare än att äta och sova. Alexander Bard Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers. Robert Hummel Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. Mark Twain Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. Mark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: let people be different. David Grayson The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist. Piet Hein If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. John A. Wheeler. To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. Goethe I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. Galileo Galilei GNU emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor. Doug Mohney, in comp.arch Varken himmelsk eller jordisk, varken dödlig eller odödlig har vi gjort dig, på det att du liksom din egen skulptör och formare fritt och ärofullt må kunna ge dig den gestalt du helst vill ha. Pico della Mirandola "Tal om människans värdighet" Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. Seneca It's so fast, it can do an infinite loop in thirty seconds. Brian Bechtel of Apple Computer on the Macintosh IIfx Emacs is a fine operating system, but I still prefer UNIX Tom Christiansen Lefty() writes: > "No matter how long you sit cross-legged like that," responds the master, "you will never make a Buddha out of yourself." Unless you're an enlightened monk, "Ah, but master, you are trying to make a mirror out of that tile using bulk matter manufacturing techniques. A little application of advanced AI and nanotech, and not only could I make myself into Buddha, you could make Buddha out of that tile."