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Old 09-03-2010, 10:21 AM   #26
Flint
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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus View Post
If the guy wasn't so crazy I'd say he had a few good points. He just got a little carried away.
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
Sometimes crazy people get it right, but still fail at delivering the message.
While reading Ray Kurzweil's book The Age of Spiritual Machines (deals with the philosophical implications of the inevitability of machine intelligence) I came upon two pages of quoted text. After reading and agreeing with it wholeheartedly (it was very thoughtful, well laid-out, and utterly convincing in the points it made) I discovered that I had been reading an excerpt from the Unabomber Manifesto.
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
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