Paul Davies Quotes
The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
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People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody – running back, quarterback, wide receiver – make the plays that Vince Young made today.
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I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
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What I stand foris what I stand on.
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Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.
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'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
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The individual stats, that stuff is fun, but it doesn't last. Somebody else is gonna come along and break your records. But the memories that you take are forever.
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Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
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I have always loved the Summer Olympics.
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The windows of my soul are made of one way glassDon't bother looking into my eyesIf there's something you want to know - just ask.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.
