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QUOTES FROM THE BOOKLET FROM 'SILICON MESSIAH'.

"Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb." - Pythagoras

"Quick downloading will allow our nonbiological creations to share immediately what they learn with billions of other machines. Ultimately, nonbiological entities will master not only the sum total of their pwn knowledge but all of ours as well." - Kurzwell

"A system of machinery almost organic has been devised... It far exceeds all human powers... Little more remains for the man to do than to watch this unconscious agent in it's operations." - Robert Hook 1835

"Machines are the produce of the minds of man." - William Cobbett 1816

"Dust thou art and unto dust thou shall return" - [Bible Quote]

"Logical thinking cannot yeild us any knowledge of the empirical world: All knowledge of reality stars from experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty of reality." - Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystery." - Albert Einstein

"The intelligence of machines will exceed that of humans within several decades. Machines will exhibit the full range of human intellect, emotions and skills, ranging from musical and other creative aptitudes to physical movement. They will claim to have feelings and, unlike todya's virtual personalities, will be very convincing when they tell us so. By 2029 the software for intelligence will have been largely mastered, and the average personal computer will be evuivalent to 1000 brains." - Kurzwell