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«The Pope has swept through Africa, where 5 million people are already infected with the AIDS virus, and which expects by the end of the century to have 10 million orphans whose parents have died of AIDS - and told them not to use condoms»
«I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
destructive, Human nature, purely, so far, viruses
«Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.»
«What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
Amid, arise, cosmic, fiendish, gene, genes, hypnotic, inducement, inducements, irresponsibility, mate, mix, orders, perfumed, permits, tireless, torture, tribe, viruses
«For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
doctors, illness, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, microbe, microbes, provoke, provokes, thousand times, virus, viruses
«Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.»
«Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
caused, folks, of their own, smallpox, smallpox virus, virus, viruses
«A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
accumulated, disillusionment, innocence, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, live out, on paper, poison, recapture, recaptured, set off, succeeds, throw off, virus, viruses, way of life, writes, write off
«My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
as such, firmly, gangster, gangsters, host, institute, instituted, Pasteur, relatively, smallpox, smallpox virus, sneer, sneering, stable, symbiosis, that is to say, The Other Half, viruses
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