"I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!"

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Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

John L. Casti

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.”
“Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.”
“There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging. Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.”

Source : Source: www.wsj.com
“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.211, Hachette UK
“Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.”
“Homer no function beer well without.”
“I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.”
“I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a booger it's not necessarily about that. It's about something more. It's about inviting a little bit of absurdity into the process and humanity into the process. Making sure that no matter who we are and what sort of pedestal or glamorous lighting we're under, we're all eating boogers man.”

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