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• Technological advance is an inherently iterative process.
  One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe....
• Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.
  -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God in the Eye...
• Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"?
  It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more....
• We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life consists in a stream of codes not so different from the successive frames of a watchvid.
  Why then cannot we cut one code short here, and start another there?...
• Today, a young man tripping on LSD realized that all matter is merely energy condensed through a slow vibratio
  we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, life is only a dream, and we are all our own imagination....
• It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.
  -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow...
• In the intercourse of life we please, often, by our defects than by our good qualities.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
  Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end....
• Life is ours. We live it our way.