Quotes by Harrison Brown

However, only a cursory investigation of the present position of machine civilizations needed to uncover the fact that it is indeed in a precarious position. A cosmic gambler, looking at us from afar, would, in all likelihood give substantial odds in favor of the probability that it will soon disappear, never again to come into existence.

Just as we know rationally that the time will come when each of us as individuals will perish, so we know that our country, our culture and our species cannot exist for ever. Sometime there must be an end.

The first and by far the most likely pattern is a return to agrarian existence.

We want to live, but we do not want to live in fear, nor do we want to regress to the status of primordial man.