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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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laconic

It restricted itself to such a laconic proviso, since in its lecture devoted to cognition it had established that knowledge obtained prematurely

—p.245 Golem XIV: Afterword (226) by Stanisław Lem
notable
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expatiated

For this very same reason it expatiated on its impersonality and our efforts to humanize it at any price

—p.241 Golem XIV: Afterword (226) by Stanisław Lem
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where every theory must break down

I see a frightening-amusing feature in this edifice, whose total knowableness without reservation Einstein so confidently professed—he, the creator of a theory that contradicted his confidence, because it led to a place where it itself broke down, and where every theory must break down: in the worl…

—p.224 Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem
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the protein and plasma of the eyeball to make a dark room?

I read about these struggles and deliberations of the first intellectronicists with no small amusement. A chicken is undoubtedly the simplest mechanism for someone who wants scrambled eggs, but it would not be the best idea to try to synthesize Intelligence by this method. Never mind about the tech…

—p.206 Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem