Erlend Loe Quotes
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
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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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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
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For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
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If design is the first signal of human intention.
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It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
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I try to stay away from certain stuff - I'm not a perfect human being. I try to represent myself as much as a good person could. I stay around the positive people.
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One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
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No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.
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Everything which is human is alien to me.
