"Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make."

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Source : "What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.

Nick Bostrom

#Humanity Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Needs Quotes

“There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.”
“forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice”
“So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.”
“High Noon is a pretty corny movie.”
“I feel the need... the need for speed.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013
“Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the”
“That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God's dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.”
“There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.”

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