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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete (1947) |
Edie Adams, Musician (1927) |
Herbert Baxter Adams, Educator (1850) |
Akon, Musician (1973) |
Tom Allen, Politician (1945) |
Ellen Barkin, Actress (1955) |
Gina Carano, Actress (1982) |
Peter Garrett, Musician (1953) |
Lukas Haas, Actor (1976) |
Lord Halifax, Politician (1881) |
Fred Davis, Celebrity (1998) |
Ralph Ellison, Author (1994) |
Edna Ferber, Novelist (1968) |
Yasunari Kawabata, Novelist (1972) |
David Lean, Director (1991) |