"We are not thinking machines..."

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Peter Watts

#Thinking Quotes #Machines Quotes

“A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.”
“Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.”
“Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, ***** thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.”
“Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.”

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“Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.”
“There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.”
“After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.”
“I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.”

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