Thought for the Day

[Justgeo1]

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Jean Baudrillard


The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

David Deutsch


The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

Ray Kurzweil


Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.

Drew Curtis

I like the idea that Mr. Curtis has... just let the brain play and let the body just exist... My brain works well, it's my body that's not working so great!

[Duke of Buckingham]

I like the idea that Mr. Curtis has... just let the brain play and let the body just exist... My brain works well, it's my body that's not working so great!

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”

Horace quotes (Ancient Roman Poet. 65 BC-8 BC)

[Duke of Buckingham]

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu


We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Duke of Buckingham]

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

George Jean Nathan

[Duke of Buckingham]

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

― Anne Frank


“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

― Augustine of Hippo

[Duke of Buckingham]

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill


In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein


Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Potter Stewart

[Duke of Buckingham]

"We have sinned against the dignity of people, especially in Greece and Portugal and often in Ireland," acknowledged Jean-Claude Juncker this Wednesday, February 18th.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The bride and groom were in the altar, ready to say "yes", but an epileptic attack changed everything. The groom fainted and the bride angry for not knowing the future husband disease, married a guest.