Ed Ayres Quotes
We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
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Corporations are the new dictators.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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The big deal is not that a computer technician made a mistake, ... The big deal is how the White House reacted to it.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.
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I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.
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he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it
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We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.
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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
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I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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Everything you ever wanted in your life is in your mind.
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We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.
