Cheese -- milk's leap toward immortality. -Clifton Fadiman The ant has made himself illustrious Through constant industry industrious. So what? Would you be calm and placid If you were full of formic acid? -- Ogden Nash, The Ant The ant is, to nanotechnology A symbol of ideal biology So what? Despite all evolutionary advance, What would we care would we were ants? -- Shaun Russel >Honestly, Robert !! > >We leave you ALONE for _just a little while_, and you've >gone and DISMANTLED parts of our Solar System AGAIN. > >WHEN will you learn to leave *us* something to play with? Amara Graps, to Robert Bradbury To err is human, and stupid. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, let the machine get it. >``A cyborg, a genetic, and an upload go into a bar. > The bartender looks at them, and says: > "What is this, a joke or something?".'' From: KPJ Do Extropians live in the Faust Lane??? Hara Ra Algimantas Malickas: >Why the > super intelligent uploaded civiliation should upload the primitives > cryo-patients? Hara Ra : As antique Extropian Art objects.... [What will posthumans do?] They'll be writing books like "Singularity for dummies", "I'm >H, your're >H" and "The 10^7 habits of highly effective entities" :-) Anders Sandberg "What did one nanobot say to the other nanobot?" "Nano Nano" Ishmael Mehmet