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A few Pithy F*rging Sayings from the Singularity (vol. I, Issue 1)


“If you can’t have Faith, at least have Hope. We need to Love urgently.” –Staff


“I’d rather have more days, than more hours in the day.” –Rachel J. Mandel


“Does the thought assail the mind or the mind the thought ?” –Staff


“Courage is the secret of power.” –Homer


“Their omnipresent noise corrodes every moment of contemplation like an acid. Cars have made the former beauty of cities invisible.” –Milan Kundera


“It may seem to you that you are standing still, but every day you move forward. Turn-offs and by-ways are missed. Options are reconfigured. You are choosing your path.” –Staff


“ ’Do you know what Khrushchev said about the counterrevolution in Hungary ?’ Liz shook her head. She must show interest, she must make the woman talk. ‘He said it never would have happened if a couple of writers had been shot in time.’ ” –John Le Carre


“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” –William James


“It is ideas, not vested interest, which are dangerous for good or evil.” –John Maynard Keynes


“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves.” –Jane Austen


“There is no escape from this confusion so long as the land and the creatures upon it are looked upon as nothing but “factors of production.” ” –E.F. Schumacher


“Alone in the silence, I understand for a moment the dread which many feel in the presence of the primeval desert, the unconscious fear which compels them to tame, alter or destroy what they cannot understand, to reduce the wild and prehuman to human dimensions. Anything rather than confront directly the antehuman, that other world which frightens not through danger or hostility but in something far worse—implacable indifference.” –Edward Abbey


“Waterhouse is thinking about cycles within cycles. He’s already made up his mind that human society is one of those cycles-within-cycles things. He has no hard data to back this up; it just seems like a cool idea. And now he is trying to figure out whether it is like Turing’s bicycle (works fine for a while, then suddenly the chain falls off; hence the occasional world war) or like an Enigma machine (grinds away incomprehensibly for a long time, then suddenly the wheels line up like a slot machine and everything is made plain in some sort of global epiphany or, if your prefer, apocalypse) or just like a rotary airplane engine (runs and runs and runs; nothing special happens; it just makes a lot of noise).” –Neal Stephenson


“Time past is distance traveled.” –Staff

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