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"What manner of wreath / might honour this death? / Some wing of language / entering earth?"

"We hovered a little above the earth. / We even flew a little."

"so that waking up / becomes a historical reenactment"

"Think of all you planned to do ... / Have you done the best you can?"

"Like thread through a needle. / Everything I do is stitched with its color."

"the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu"

"As if we are all trying to see each other through these tiny keyholes."

"You don't stop planning just because there's no hope."

"And what do you imagine you are studying?"

"One of those bits of accidental poetry the world generates without thinking."

"Evolutionary search is about as stupid as an optimization process can be and still work."

"Think of the old cliché about 'the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.'"

"each step of the Poor Coordination Polka makes your life worse."

"Training in clear thinking should begin early."

"Cybernetics, the study of goal-directed, adaptive systems, is the best framework"

"a given need gains dominance and overrides other basic concerns."

"War is older than the human species."

"They ought to consider AI in terms of its relationship with governance."

"this shift from quantitative to qualitative differentiation takes place."

"sources of variation are removed, individuals are predicted to develop similar phenotypes"

"the knowledge they generate cannot be easily integrated across experiments."

"Above all, don't lie to yourself."

"secret unspoken belief that they are different from everyone else."

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears."

"I do not know which of us has written this page."

"The body was meat."

"True voyage is return."

"I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century."

"Isn't it pretty to think so?"

"The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior."

"It was precise enough to be wrong, rather than vague to the point of being unassailable."