David Marusek Quotes

#1. Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

David Marusek

#2. Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.

David Marusek

#3. Who among us can claim normalcy, Bishop?

David Marusek

#4. The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.

David Marusek

#5. When our brain is overtaxed, we find distractions more distracting.

Nicholas Carr

#6. In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

David Marusek

#7. What are those glorious dots? Those, dear one, are forget-me-nots!

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#8. Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

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#9. I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to walk with Him that I have learned to walk forward.

Anasazi Foundation

#10. Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls ... The genius of the irrational ... This is the body's intelligence, not the mind's. Every living cell possess it ... [the] indomitable will to survive.

David Marusek

#11. I was a weird kid.

Jill Sobule

#12. Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!

Sonam Kapoor

#14. This day promised, like the others, to be a sunbath under a blue dome.

William Golding

#15. I hope the best for anybody in this business. It's hard enough as it is, and of course you don't get much respect from anybody, but when you do, you should appreciate it.

Robin Zander

#16. What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.

David Marusek

#17. Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

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#18. The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Dave Barry

#19. The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

Thomas Paine

#20. And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

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#21. I suppose that in a dark room, even a dim bulb feels bright.

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#22. Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.

David Marusek