Geoffrey Hinton Quotes
Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
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Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.
