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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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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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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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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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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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
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Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.
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Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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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.
