favorite quotes from FEW

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My favorite written quote from FEW:

from Steve Petersen's talk

“How easy it is for the gullible to clutch at the hope that
somehow, deep in the cabalistic mysteries of information,
computation, G¨odel, Escher, and Bach, there really is an
occult connection between simplicity and reality that will
direct us unswervingly to the Truth; that prior probabilities
constructed to favor computationally compressible strings
really are informative and that learning can be defined as
data-compression. After all, aren’t these things constructed
out of “information”? I know whereof I speak—I have met
these glassy-eyed wretches (full professors, even) and they are
beyond salvation. ”
—Kevin Kelly

My favorite spoken quote:

Branden (introducing Frank)- I wanted to be like Frank when I grew up.
Frank- if you're going to be like me, that means you'll never grow up.

(Quote about the quote: "creative people are neotenous")