#humans

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#far #humans #makes #maybe #never

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#competition #deadly #evolutionary #humans #light

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#form #function #human-body #humans #ornamentation

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#evolved #haven #humans #kill #name

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#find #humans #less #living #struggled

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anger #best #bringing #choose #conditions

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#dangerous #emphasizes #humans #most #now

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#eat #exception #humans #like #only