https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 30 May 2026 20:24:06 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/kubrick-stanley/38337/ https://wist.info/kubrick-stanley/38337/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:39:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38337 HAL9000: The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [with Arthur C. Clarke] ]]> https://wist.info/kubrick-stanley/38337/feed/ 0 38337 https://wist.info/stross-charles/36912/ https://wist.info/stross-charles/36912/#respond Wed, 03 May 2017 03:17:58 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36912 So you end up with divergent sects reading from subtly different versions of the same book — which in turn is a third-generation translation of something which might have been the original codification of an oral tradition — and all convinced that their interpretation overrides such minor obstacles as observable reality. Which still wouldn’t be a problem except that some of the readers think the books are an instruction manual rather than a set of educational parables, a blueprint instead of a metaphor.

Charles "Charlie" Stross (b. 1964) British writer
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
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