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Friday, August 29, 2003

 

A normal lifetime, for a person who lives in a developed nation, is about 30,000 days. Grass is in bloom for about 10,000 of those days, and certainly I could take one of them to sit down and get to know grass. But it is frightening how quickly life passes. I am a little over forty years old, and that means I have used up more than half of those 10,000 days that I have been given for viewing grass. If I'm lucky, I have about 30 summers left. Each summer has about 60 days of good weather, and maybe 20 days when I actually get outside and have time to spare. That adds up to a little over 600 chances to see grass. They can easily slip away.

James Elkins

Thursday, August 28, 2003

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

 

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

 

My theme is don’t solve problems. When you solve problems, you end up feeding your failures, starving your strengths, and achieving costly mediocrity. Problem-solvers in the end, if they’re really preoccupied with problems, tend to fail in a global competitive economy. So don’t solve problems. Pursue opportunities.

George Gilder

Monday, August 25, 2003

 

Oh, sure, we may become as gods, but the thrill fades fast, because that thrill is merely human and parochial. By the new, post-Singularity standards, posthumans are just as bored and frustrated as humans ever were. They are not magic, they are still quotidian entities in a gritty, rules-based universe. They will find themselves swiftly and bruisingly brought up against the limits of their own conditions, whatever those limits and conditions may be.

Bruce Sterling
Tomorrow Now