 Quote > Thinking machinesOnce, men turned thinking over to machines in the hopes that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Continued at top
Owned by Insignis - Created on 06/22/2005 - Last edited on 07/24/2005 05/21/06 :: Thing :: Dune :: Classic sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, 1965 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture07/24/05 :: Person :: Frank Herbert 05/14/05 :: Folder :: Violence01/15/04 :: Folder :: History07/08/03 :: Folder :: Technology 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamA world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!   10/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Disease and war01/17/08 :: Quote :: Gurney HalleckI'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me--all bearing for someone else to pick.  07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamYou've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind. 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Paul AtreidesA process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. (The First Law of Mentat) 06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank HerbertI must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. 05/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Harper's Magazine 11/06/05 :: Article :: Why should christians be surprised? :: 10/21/07 :: Quote :: A. SpammerI think this email passes the Turing test on accident:
Hi, how's doing? The answer is lying on the surface. You're dead on your feet, man, I can tell! But chill out, there's plenty of people just like you. Do you know that an immense grow of people suffering from a sexual disorder is observed, it's being counted by millions already. Questioned? It's a modern life style. You get-you pay. Everyth [...] 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen Mohiam'That which submits rules.' ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows -- a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose. 06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank Herberthe fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its vi [...] 05/02/04 :: Article :: South Park and The Passion :: Thoughts on the movie's impact02/11/05 :: Quote :: Bjarne StroustrupCuriously enough, the volume of interest and public debate is often inversely proportional to the importance of a feature. The reason is that it is much easier to have a firm opinion on a minor feature than on a major one; minor features fit directly into the current state of affairs, whereas major ones - by definition - do not.
[Editor's note: while this was in the context of C++ language featur [...]  09/15/07 :: Quote :: MC Hawking
ah, yuh
that's right
this one's for all the naysayers and dream-slayers
who told the Hawk-man it couldn't be done.
Listen up.
Your momma is so fat, she's got a trashbag for a sock.
She's so hairy she looks like she's got Don King in a headlock.
Your momma is so ugly that her dog won't give her fleas.
You could stick her face in dough and make monster cookies.
Your momma is so da [...] 08/09/06 :: Quote :: Giovanni BoccaccioAlibech turns hermit, and a monk, Rustico, teaches her to put the Devil in Hell. Afterwards she is brought home, and married to Neerbale.
Dioneus listened attentively to the Queen’s discourse, and when she had done and he knew that only he remained to complete the day’s entertainment, without trifling away the time or awaiting a command from the Queen, thus he began.
Gracious ladies, it may [...] 02/26/08 :: Quote :: Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess IrulanDo you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly. 01/17/08 :: Quote :: "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain." 11/23/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Praying Doesn't Help05/20/04 :: Article :: The power to make people listen :: When you talk, does the world stand still? |
