"to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other"

-- John Brunner

#Bullets Quotes #Helping Quotes #Faster Quotes

“If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.”
“What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.”
“I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.”
“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.”

Source : Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.53, OUP Oxford
“It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended”
“Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.”
“To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside”

Source : Jo Nesbo (2009). “The Devil's Star: Harry Hole 5”, p.248, Random House
“If you've managed to remain a Luddite - one who resists technology - you're surrounded by people who don't, so you're affected more than you may realize.”

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