"The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,â€ the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. â€œImagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease."

-- Jaron Lanier

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“Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.”
“We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.”
“Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!”
“I don't like things to be the same. I like things to evolve.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of the book and the lineage of people constructing novels are always part of the story the author is telling. I think the equivalent for memoir should be that all memoirs are, in some way, about the process of memory. Memoirs are made out of a confusing, flawed act of creation.”
“I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.”
“He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship...”

Source : "Phaedrus". Translated by Mary Renault in "The Charioteer", p. 104, 1953.
“The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.”

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