Definition of Singularity
Singularity
The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.
Anything singular, rare, or curious.
Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
Celibacy.
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Singularity Quotations
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Erica Jong
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
Rem Koolhaas
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Jeremy Taylor
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
I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.
Thomas Haden Church
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
Vernor Vinge
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
Henry Lawson
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge
Singularity Translations
singularity in German is Einzigartigkeit, Beispiellosigkeit
singularity in Spanish is singularidad
singularity in Swedish is egenhet
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