Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
You will stir up the hornets. [Lat. , Irritabis crabones. ]
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
All men love themselves.
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.
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Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us with yet more that will likely be unfamiliar to most readers. But the real treat of the essays is how they will make Artificial Life researchers squirm as they recognize their own intellectual sleights of hand exposed for all to see. Those researchers and the Genesis Redux contributors are all ultimately interested in what it is that truly distinguishes us beings from other lumps of matter.