W. Daniel Hillis Quotes
If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, definable as the art most susceptible to lossy compression.
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If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.
