Jamais Cascio Quotes

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

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• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

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• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

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• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

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• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

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• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
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• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
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• Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

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• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

  

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• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  

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• All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

  

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• Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
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• Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

  

  Maria Semple

• One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
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• Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Mind
  • Alone