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The greatest crime of Marxism wasn't simply that much of what it claimed was false but that it claimed to be the sole and utterly complete path to understanding life and reality.

— Jaron Lanier One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much.

One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

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