Singularity Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Singularity". There are currently 118 quotes in our collection about Singularity. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Singularity!
The best sayings about Singularity that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

    Facts   Strange   Share  
    Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books
  • And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

    Mean   Perfect   Desire  
    1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.
  • A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

  • We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.

    Zero   People   Black  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

    "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Book by Vernor Vinge, 1993.
  • The Armenians will willingly harbor revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

    Pride   Race   Giving  
  • Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.

    Antonio Negri (1999). “Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State”, p.345, U of Minnesota Press
  • Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

    Time   Awkward   Youth  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59
  • Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

    Wise   Fashion   Often Is  
  • Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going to experience, as a nonbeliever, is not going to be the good part. That's the essential difference between the Singularity and what we're usually told about the fate of our eternal souls.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

    Struggle   Men   Jamaica  
  • In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

    Real   Space   Law  
    Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium
  • The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

    Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.498, Penguin
  • 1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

    Moon   Nasty   Newton  
  • No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

  • When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.

    Tariq Ramadan (2010). “The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism”, p.54, Penguin UK
  • We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

    "From Bauhaus to Koolhaas". Interview with Katrina Heron, www.wired.com. July 01, 1996.
  • The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 06, 2012
  • Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

    Special   Shapes   Lines  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

    Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson
  • The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

  • Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.

    Joan Raphael-Leff (2000). “Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown”, p.1951, Karnac Books
  • Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

    Mean   Years   Eras  
    "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Vernor Vinge's remarks presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 30-31, 1993.
  • I am very proud of my role in 'Singularity.' It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.

    "Bipasha: ‘I Am Very Proud of My Role in Singularity’". bollyspice.com. September 03, 2012.
  • Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

    Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan
  • People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.

  • Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

  • History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

  • Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes.

    Dog   Stars   Artist  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

    Views   World   Approach  
Page 1 of 4
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • We hope our collection of Singularity quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Singularity is constantly growing (today it includes 118 sayings from famous people about Singularity), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Singularity!