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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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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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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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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One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.
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I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.
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The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'
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My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
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I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.
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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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If your son graduates from Harvard, people will regard him as smart and highly qualified for the rest his life and give him access to opportunities. He'll be able to get any job he wants.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.
