Geoffrey Hinton Quotes

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

Geoffrey Hinton

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• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

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• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

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• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

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• Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

  

  Raf Simons
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• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

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• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Success
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• I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
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• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• I don't feel closeted.

  

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• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
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  • Vacuum

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Future
  • Death
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• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Trust
  • Sometimes
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• This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

  

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• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
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• I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
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• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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  • Earth
  • Hate

• As far as being onstage, commanding presence, I've always looked up to people like Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury and Paul Stanley - the rock gods. I've always wanted to be able to achieve that level of commanding nature onstage and really leading people at a show.

  

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• In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.

  

  Duane Allman
  • Knowledge
  • Wish

• Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question