"What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time."

-- Brian Christian

#Tests Quotes #Failing Quotes #Construction Quotes

“If I canâ€™t be personal, I donâ€™t want to argue,â€ said his hostess categorically. â€œI may be missing your points, but youâ€™re much too busy dodging mine.”
“It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!”
“They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.”
“Observe more, do less. Do less, enjoy more.”
“You know you have ADD when Look A chicken - T-shirt”
“For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”
“The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.”
“We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.”

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