Ian McDonald Quotes
Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
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I've been gay since the day I was born.
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When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.
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Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.
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Donald Trump has got unlimited number of insecurities. But the No. 1 one thing, I would say, is his insecurity with his intellect. There's a reason why he always refers to where he went to college and, you know, that, 'I'm a smart person.' You know, it may be narcissism. But I think it really reflects an insecurity.
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I do think that my generation is really smart and wants to have political conversations, and so I hope that we can continue spreading our ideas and being able to change how our systems work. So, I guess being an all-American to me is being someone who questions things.
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Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.
