Singularity Quotes

Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time.

Simone de Beauvoir
- Way
- Universal
- Feminine
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

William Hazlitt

One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant. Probably not, though.

Charlie Jane Anders
There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.

Vladimir Nabokov
- Real
- Numbers
- Exponents
Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.

George Pattison
- Science
- Progress
- Claims
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

Haruki Murakami
As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

William Deresiewicz
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Erica Jong
- Mind
- Singularity