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"We know that, in principle, inanimate ejecta from the big bang can be converted into thinking, living matter."
"The worst outcome was clear in my mind: two copies of the exact same short story, each only a single printed page in length..."
"Is there such a thing as a non-virtual-reality story?"
"If you wake from a nap in VR, you wake up not to where your body is, but to where your mind is."
"According to Albert Einstein (or maybe it was Al-Anon), the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
"He gave the example that each side’s Go pieces, called stones, are all physically the same, unlike the specialized and dynamic pieces of chess, where even a pawn can become queen. "
"The first computer Go attempts were based on what can only be described as computational exegesis..."
"The edges of some linguistic categories, like the edges of clouds, seem to disappear as you get closer."
"The rabies virus belongs, not coincidentally, to a group of viruses named for the Greek goddess of frenzy and rage."
"Among the congenitally blind, however, the imagined typewriter—a composite of experiences of touch and sound alone—is the same size at all distances."
"To build up a charge, a gradient, or natural selection, there needs to be some kind of a border, but physics and biology draw their borders differently."
"But metaphors invite their logical extensions, and these entailments can seamlessly influence thought."
"It was, of course, impossible to calculate how art might change minds that change the world."
"Davis, who is sixty-three, stands on an aluminum peg leg fitted with a rubber stopper that was meant, originally, for a laboratory flask."
"As a company, Chanel marks its territory like a cat does its palm fronds."
"What if I told you that last week I predicted all eight winners of a round of the World Cup?"
"You are not trying to submit the funniest caption; you are trying to win The New Yorker’s caption contest."
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