"I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet."

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Source : "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

Sebastian Thrun

#Technology Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.”

Source : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.17, Tharpa Publications US
“There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.”
“In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country”
“We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.”
“Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.”
“I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.”
“Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.”
“I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.”

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