transhumanist manifestos
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Excerpts from two of my favorite books, Gerard K. O'Neill's THE HIGH FRONTIER and Robert A. Heinlein's TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVETRANSCRIPT
Favorite Quotes from
Robert Heinlein’s Time Enough
for Love
andGerard K. O’Neill’s
The HighFrontier
“ No story teller has ever been
able to dream
up anything
as fantasti
cally unlikely as what really does
happen in this mad
universe.”
An old person
has had his nose
rubbed
in changes so
many times that
he knows it is
a moving
picture, forever
changing.”
“A young
person
sees
the world
as a still
picture,
immutabl
e.
“‘Rights’ is a physical abstraction. No one has ‘rights’, neither machine
Nor flesh-and-blood. Persons-both sorts- have opportunities, not rights,
which they use, or do not use. “
“At the most we can suggest
opportunities whose technical imperatives will
make it easier for mankind to choose peace rather than
war; diversity rather than
repression. “
“A proposal to improve the human condition
makes sense onlyif , in the long term, it has the potential to
give all people, whatever their place of birth, access to the energy and
materials needed for their progress.”
“Machines are human
because they are made in
our image. They share
both our virtues and our faults—
magnified.”
“Do not handicap your children by making their life easy.”
“The settlement of
space by humans could
be carried out without
ever exceeding
the limits of the
technology of this decade.”
“Work is not an end in itself. There must always be time
enough for love.”
“Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don’t worry about
it… face each sunrise as a fresh creation and
live for it joyously.”