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What here I’ve said from fancy’s wing
A sense supporting, at my need
You may...
– Richard Dadd, 1865
July 2011
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Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death...
– Thomas Browne, On Dreams (c.1650)
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We all labour against our own cure; for death is the cure of all disease.
– Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642) , 11. 9.
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« Everything, except GOD, has in itself some measure of privation, thus all...
– Kénôse I
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Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become...
– Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p.96
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I don’t particularly like people. Never have. Man to my mind is about the...
– Warren McCulloch
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Cybernetics is the universal solvent
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What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number?
– Warren S. McCulloch [General Semantics Bulletin, No. 26/27, 1960. p. 7-18]
June 2011
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