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He hesitated. I know—machines don’t hesitate. But remember, Mike was designed to operate on incomplete data. Lately he had reprogrammed himself to put emphasis on words; his hesitations were dramatic. Maybe he spent pauses stirring random numbers to see how they matched his memories.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
People like you are in what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality (judiciously, as you will), we’ll act again, creating other realities, which you can study, too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors, and you—all of you—will be left to just study what we do.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
Marx and Engels would become the philosophical fathers of the communist revolution across half the world. For that reason alone Marx and Engels might justifiably be thought as the most influential philosophers of all time.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
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