Top 15 Dennis E. Taylor Quotes

How are you supposed to feel if you are forced to do what you would have done anyway?

Since I doubt, I think; since I think, I exist.

Wake up, buddy. You okay?” “Auntie Em! Auntie Em!” Homer’s VR came online, smiling. “I guess we got’em.” I snorted with relief. “And their little dog, too.” Homer steepled his fingers in a properly evil mastermindish pose. “All their base are belong to us.

People's capacity for turning dogmatic stupidity into political movements never ceased to amaze me. We've knocked off 99.9% of the human race and somehow the crazies still manage to survive. It just defies the odds.

I like people in the abstract but not in the concrete?

At one time, we thought that the way life came together was almost completely random, only needing an energy gradient to get going. But as we’ve moved into the information age, we’ve come to realize that life is more about information than energy. Fire has most of the characteristics of life. It eats, it grows, it reproduces. But fire retains no information. It doesn’t learn; it doesn’t adapt. The five millionth fire started by lightning will behave just like the first. But the five hundredth bacterial division will not be like the first one, especially if there is environmental pressure. That’s DNA. And RNA. That’s life. …

Stereotypes are valid first-order approximations.

Don’t make the common mistake of thinking your opponents are stupid just because they don’t see things your way,

The Iron Rule: Treat others less powerful than you however you like. The Silver Rule: Treat others as you’d like to be treated. The Golden Rule: Treat others as they’d like to be treated.

The cat’s A.I. was realistic, right down to the total lack of loyalty.

Belly laughs are one of the best things about being sentient, and you should never miss a chance for one.

It seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage-memories,regrets and lost opportunities.

Point is, that’s when I really realized that I don’t think like most people. I’m fine with solitude. In fact, I get antsy when I’m around people for too long a period without respite.” The

So, you’re doing things the hard way, because you’re too lazy to figure out how to do them the easy way?

Yeah, they still make duct tape. And it still holds the universe together.