"Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets."

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Source : Life Magazine, November 20, 1970.

Marvin Minsky

#Pet Quotes #Might Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?”
“Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)”
“He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.”

Source : Joseph Delaney (2015). “Seventh Son: The Spook's Apprentice Film Tie-in”, p.127, Random House
“The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.”
“Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”

Source : "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.
“I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?”
“Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.”

Source : Sarah Schulman (2012). “The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press
“As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.”

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