Astro Teller Quotes
The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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It gets worse and worse, it reinforces this idea of women as sexual objects, right; there's this idea of women as playthings for their amusement... that we are not meant to be treated with respect.
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The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.