"The computers are in control. We just live in their world."

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Source : "The AI Revolution Is On" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

Danny Hillis

#World Quotes #Computer Quotes #Just Live Quotes

“What can you do in order to save your own banks?”

Source : "The FT/Reuters Dijsselbloem interview transcript" by Peter Spiegel, www.ft.com. March 26, 2013.
“They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound - the most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat....I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen...It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.”
“I like to put a single photograph in different contexts, to see how it takes on other meanings, how being locked in a new dialogue exposes another potential. It's like dating other people in order to get to know yourself.”
“On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.”
“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
“I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.”
“One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?”
“I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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