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[Medical Time Travel]

I have collected quotes for the two last years.

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[platypus]

Funny stuff in the technology quotes....would be even funnier if you included quotes where people overestimated the technology available in the near future.

[brokenportal]

platypus, on Feb 24 2010, 06:27 AM, said:

Funny stuff in the technology quotes....would be even funnier if you included quotes where people overestimated the technology available in the near future.

Isnt that the exact opposite of what these quotes are about?

[brokenportal]

A peice of advice from W. Somerset Maugham: "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."

[brokenportal]

"Your vision is larger than our appetite." - A director of the NIH when asked about investing in life extension more strategically.

[brokenportal]

I quote part of this often. I find a lot of power in this.

"You remember the stories John use to tell us about the the three chinamen playing Fantan? This guy runs up to them and says, "Hey, the world's coming to an end!" and the first one says, "Well, I best go to the mission and pray," and the second one says, "Well, hell, I'm gonna go and buy me a case of Mezcal and six whores," and the third one says "Well, I'm gonna finish the game." I shall finish the game, Doc."

[carlcrott]

brokenportal, on 15 November 2010 - 10:56 PM, said:

"Your vision is larger than our appetite." - A director of the NIH when asked about investing in life extension more strategically.

this is a F****** joke right?

WTF?

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ... what again?


anything with government involved cant get their shit together

[brokenportal]

Here is a good quote Ive been reading lately:

"All noble thins are as difficult as they are rare."- Spinoza If you had to pick one it seems that quote sums up much of what Spinoza figured out.


Carl-

They are doing great, just at a much slower rate. Thing is of course that our deaths are utter calamities to us and slower rate doesnt cut it. Its kind of like an f'ing joke that they dont understand that, but more accurately I guess I would say its that science when left to its own devices does science, which is great, but to do indefinite life extension they need to be pushed and driven by philosophy.
We are developing a short intro along those lines here:  http://www.imminst.o...life-extension/

[brokenportal]

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."
— Erwin Schrodinger

[brokenportal]

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux quotes

[brokenportal]

This was in great book about the Vikings. I would love to see a collection of these kinds of sentiments from different time periods. We dont want it to slip away. As we know, slipping away has been a very real phenomenon countless amounts of times. Every one of them like the closing of a dimension, the shattering of a world, the obliteration of a universe. What dimension might we consider discardable? What universe might we say its alright to wipe off the map? We would never blow up the earth for sport, or whim, and this is part of the mentality behind indefinite life extension.


"What has become of the steed?

What has become of the warrior?

What has become of the seats of banquet?

Where are the joys of the hall?

O for the bright cup!

O for the mailclad warrior!

O for the glory of the prince!

How that time has passed away

And grown dark under the cover of night,

As if it had never been."

From 'The Wanderer'

[Dorho]

I intend to live forever. So far, so good. -Stephen Wright

[caliban]

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[brokenportal]

You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
— Alan Watts

[The Immortalist]

OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silly Ozy  

[Droplet]

A favourite of mine though I know not of its origins is "youth is wasted on the young."