Quotes About Control

it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.

Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And

If you know how something works, you can control it.

After all, it is hard to think of a more important, or fundamental, mystery than what, or who, created and controls the universe.

Una ley científica no es una ley científica si solo se cumple cuando algún ser sobrenatural decide dejar que las cosas funcionen, y no intervenir.

There is no God. No-one directs the universe.

Why are we so worried about artificial intelligence? Surely humans are always able to pull the plug? People asked a computer, "Is there a God?" And the computer said, "There is now," and fused the plug.

I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. - Stephen Hawking "Black Holes and Baby Universes

Tôi nh?n ra r?ng ngay c? nh?ng ng??i luôn kh?ng ??nh m?i th? ??u Ä'ã ???c s?p ??t trÆ°á»›c và s? ch?ng làm gì có th? thay ??i ???c cÅ©ng v?n quan sát trÆ°á»›c khi qua ???ng.

In any decent police state, they'd be a lot more efficient. In Red Spain, for example, toward the end, the discipline we had achieved was phenomenal. The Spaniards made excellent secret policemen.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

I suggest that the true Darwinian spirit might salvage our depleted world by denying a favorite theme of Western arrogance—that we are meant to have control and dominion over the earth and its life because we are the loftiest product of a preordained process.

Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

It was so simple, but it was a revelation: what you did for yourself was what gave you the power.