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So its March 13. How would you like to have your favorite quote visible across the entire website for everyone to see?
Post your favorite, positive quotes right here, along with the author's name, the best ones will become a meme authority and will stay there for several weeks. :)
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By the way: When the quoting begins, if you favor someone's quote, simply copy & paste it and put an "h+" infront of it. If you don't like it, add an "-h" instead. If you skip a vote, I'll assume you simply missed it or are neutral about it.You may vote for each quote only once, but you can vote for as many of the quotes as you'd like. At the end, only the memes regarded as h+ by the community will be considered.
Your vote will play an important role in deciding which one wins the meme authority status here at Thoughtware.TV.
Obviously, no need to vote for the quotes you submit, since I'll assume you like them, otherwise, you wouldn't post them :-)
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The future lies in the hands of those who are able to give the coming generation good reasons to live and hope.
Pierre Teilhard DeChardin
The most important skill is the skill to learn new skills
Paul Bourke
In the information age, sharing can increase world wealth enormously, because giving information does not decrease your information.
John de Rivaz
Uploading isn't a H+ goal because it's one step closer to some mythical and unknowable perfection, but because it'll be jolly practical.
Dr. Rich Artym
There is a need for a future culture. There is a need for individual action. There is a need for thinking globally. There is a need for us to be better.
Marius Watz
Mortality is . . for mortals. I aspire for more than this.
Aaron Kfir
H+ is a commitment to overcoming human limits in all their forms including extending lifespan, augmenting intelligence, perpetually increasing knowledge, achieving complete control over our personalities and identities and gaining the ability to leave the planet. Transhumanists seek to achieve these goals through reason, science and technology.
Nancie Clark
"Why do we have to keep making things better and faster? Are we not content with the highest living standards in human history? Is life not fast enough? Not convenient enough? What do we want?
Silly us; those questions don't matter! It's built into our soul-print: the musician will play, the writer will write, the tinkerer will tinker. Asking us to stop progress is asking us to stop all these things-- to stop *life*-- and we can't, not even if we wanted to. Progress is just what happens when people *live*.
Dave Dahl, If Buddha Had Been Born in 1970, Would He Be Using The Internet? "
When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.
Elizabeth C. Stanton
Godlike powers can be mass-produced and inexpensive
Carl Feynman
No man knows enough to be a pessimist.
Norman Cousins
Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today, and the realities of tomorrow.
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so.
Freeman Dyson, Infinite In All Directions
Unlimited individual freedom through reason and technology.
Nancie Clark
I have seen the True Path. I will not warm myself by the fire. I will become The Flame.
(The following can either be not suitable or I regarded them too long, but liked them):
The senator described to me her vision of society. We're on a train, she said. A runaway train steaming furiously toward a collision with a concrete wall and all she wanted to do was to put on the brakes before it was too late. I say it's already too late. I say if we want to survive, forget about the brakes and stoke the boilers. Let's get up enough speed now so that no lousy wall of concrete can dictate our doom. Enough speed to thrust this train right through the wall. We all know that a straw, driven by a tornado, can pierce a fence post. We have to ride that tornado. We have to ride that train. We have to find out if there is life on the other side of the wall, because if we give up now we are going to crash. Only audacity and nerve can serve us now.
Linda Nagata, Tech Heaven
"One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh."
Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles Of The Future (originally published in 1958):
"Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you."
Edwin Land (founder of Polaroid)
To the silicon sailor, adventure is just a byte away.
Stay alert.The future is going to be interesting.
In times of chaos, panic, or rapid change, the bizarre rapidly becomes acceptable.
Frank Ogden Quote Book
What have you become today?
Mitchell Porter
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor souls, who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
"Turn on, tune in, take charge."
Timothy Leary
(This is a recipe for managing complexity with simple elements, taken from the book "Out of Control - The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World" by Kevin Kelly, which I very much recommend. This comes out of robot research, and (of course) biology:
1. Do simple things first
2. Learn to do them flawlessly
3. Add new layers of activity over the results of the simple tasks.
4. Don't change the simple things.
5. Make the new layer work as flawlessly as the simple.
6. Repeat, ad infinitum. )
"Complexity is grown from simple systems that already work."
"After all, we're all human."
- Picard
"Speak for yourself, sir. I plan to live forever!"
- Riker
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Let him that would move the world first move himself. by Socrates
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The one I would favor from those I submitted is:
In the information age, sharing can increase world wealth enormously, because giving information does not decrease your information.
John de Rivaz
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Einstein’s thoughts…
1. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
2. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
3. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
4. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
5. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
6. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
7. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
8. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
9. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
10. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
11. I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
12. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
13. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
14. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
15. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
16. Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
17. The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
18. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
19. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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h+ "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
h+ "In the information age, sharing can increase world wealth enormously, because giving information does not decrease your information. John de Rivaz"
h+ "Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve."
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thanks for the message. Fixed.
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the new quote will be selected tomorrow in the afternoon
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Thanks for the quotes!
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." (Will be in the News Section)
"In the information age, sharing can increase world wealth enormously, because giving information does not decrease your information." (Is in the videos section)
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