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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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.
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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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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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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald 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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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
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I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me!
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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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.
