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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Corporations are the new dictators.
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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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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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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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My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
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The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
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Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
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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.
