Brian Christian Quotes

To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

Brian Christian

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• Idiosyncrasy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Life history
• Intelligent machines

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Passionate
  • Libertarian
  • Civil

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

  

  Gary Webb
  • Life
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Drive
  • Effect
  • Fears

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Win

• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • City
  • Exercise
  • New

• I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Win
  • Fight

• We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Game
  • Best
  • Football

• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Good
  • High

• In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Days
  • Continue
  • Heroic

• My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Live
  • Children
  • Grandfather

• The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian - most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I'm in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that's a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who's really strong on civil liberties.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • America
  • Think
  • Strong

• Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Intensity
  • Preparing
  • Reduce

• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Respect
  • Joy
  • Feel

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Human
  • Idiosyncrasy
  • Artificial Intelligence