Adrian Tchaikovsky famous quotes

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Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
-- Adrian Tchaikovsky

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The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.
-- Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'Ã©tendre la mÃ©fiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent Ã l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).
Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Adrian Tchaikovsky famous quotes

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