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The five minutes ticked away on Limaal Mandella’s fob watch and the tension wound tight around Corporation Plaza. Rael Mandella Jr., sweating in his father’s best championship suit, was horrified to realize how few of such brief five-minute periods went to make up a lifetime.

— Ian McDonald Desolation Road (1988)

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Any aeai [A.I., artificial intelligence ] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.

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It is an easy, and terrible, mistake to make, to think your will is God’s will.

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