"When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project."

-- Vernor Vinge

#Intelligent Quotes #Creating Quotes #People Quotes

“People want incongruous, impossible things.”
“We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like.”
“I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.”
“Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.”
“[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.”
“Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?”

Source : Adam Weishaupt (2013). “The Illuminati Manifesto”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc
“Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.”
“You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.”

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