British Cryptographer Quotes

John Wilkins

Frank Adcock

Leo Marks

Epitaph:

A twisted nerve, a ganglion gone awry
Predestinates the sinner and the saint.

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat... 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.