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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

- Stephen Hawking

I received this quote this morning and haven't been able to stop thinking about it.

It seems awfully depressing to look at it this way, but the only thing I can think of to compare it to would be cloning, which I'm not so sure is always a good thing. I can't seem to find anything at all positive in Hawking's statement as it, I'm ashamed to admit, would seem to be true.

What do you think? Can you find anything positive in his statement?

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain