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But no one, no matter how intelligent, could make good inferences from bad data.
Transcendence (1992)
If you win too easy, better ask what’s going on that you don’t know about.
Transcendence (1992)
Darya found the logic of her thought processes so compelling that it never occurred to her that others might have a different reaction. But they did.
Transcendence (1992)
The answers come pat and fast. You see, what the downsiders want isn’t an explanation; it’s a catchphrase they can use instead of an explanation.
Transcendence (1992)
Darya had a few moments of wild hope before logic intruded.
Transcendence (1992)
What I found was worse than diversity—it was insanity.
Transcendence (1992)
“We’re all here,” said Louis Nenda’s voice.
“Where’s here? Can you see?”
“Not a thing. Black as a politician’s heart.”
Transcendence (1992)
Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all.
Transcendence (1992)
Kallik’s explanation was neat, logical, and complete. Like most such explanations, it was, in Hans Rebka’s view, almost certainly wrong. That was not the way the real world operated.
Transcendence (1992)
Darya stood up, heard her voice rising, and knew she was doing what she insisted what a scientist should never do: allowing passion and the defense of personal theories to interfere with logical analysis.
Transcendence (1992)
Once you were committed to a course of action, you didn’t waste your time looking back and second-guessing the decision, because every action in life was taken on the basis of incomplete information. You looked at what you had, and you did all you could to improve the odds; but at some point you had to roll the dice—and live or die with whatever you had thrown.
Transcendence (1992)
Darya was beginning to understand why she might be ruined forever for academic life. Certainly, the world of ideas had its own pleasures and thrills. But surely there was nothing to compete with the wonderful feeling of being alive, after knowing without a shadow of doubt that you would be dead in one second.
Transcendence (1992)