Brian Christian Quotes
What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I love to write.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
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As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
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What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
