Ian McDonald Quotes
Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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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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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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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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And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
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The U.S. position on Jerusalem was not the reason why there hasn't been progress towards peace. The reason is that both the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership are divided. And there is an enormous gap between Israelis and Palestinians. To say that this decision is only recognizing reality, that Jerusalem is the actual capital of Israel - well, that's true. But it's a selective recognition of reality.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.
