Ramez Naam Quotes
In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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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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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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In the end, I expect we'll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
