#essentially

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#being #cartoon #dark #decent #decent people

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. ↗

— Tina Fey

#around #became #could #essentially #fifth

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. ↗

— Imogene Coca

#butterfly #comedians #essentially #hammer #most

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#essentially #everyone #fact #guilty #himself

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. ↗

— Elizabeth George

#characters #deal #essentially #events #grow

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#cease #computer #computer program #consciousness #could

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#defence #essentially #go #iraq #self

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#called #dinner #essentially #fierce #had

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' ↗

— John Tuley

#asserting #belief #demand #description #direction