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• First they surpassed the programmers But I didn't care about that I wasn't a programmer Then they retired the designers But I didn't care about that I wasn't a designer either After that, they overtook the translators But I didn't care…

  Bomber Guy

• Corporations are remorseless, paperclip-maximizing colony organisms that perceive us as inconvenient gut-flora, and they lack any executive function (as do their executives), and they cannot self-regulate. To keep corporations from harming us, we…

  Cory Doctorow

• At this point, the wiser folks will put away their calculator and return to their order of magnitude estimate in their head, their slide rule, and their abacus as needed. The others will be left to wonder why getting a correct value pays less than…

  New York Times letter to the editor

• All I was trying to do was get that message across, that by putting more and more stuff on a chip we were going to make all electronics cheaper.

  Gordon Moore

• The biggest problems facing the world today are not at all beyond our control, rather they are all of our own making, and entirely in our power to deal with.

  Jared Diamond

• The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other. Entire…

  Bill Gates

• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

  Charles Dickens

• Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows

  Leonard Cohen

• We evolved to communicate, to speak and to listen, and acquire verbal and auditory skill relatively easily. There is no guaranty that we learn to read and write, but somehow our brains have figured out how to reconfigure themselves into reading and…

  Robert Henry Eller

• It is our hubris to think humans are a node at the absolute end of evolution instead of just another successful adaptation. AI does not have motives. If a true intelligence somehow arises, it will not have evolved in a body to reproduce, to find…

  New York Times comments

• A.I. is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire.

  Sundar Pichai

• I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human being, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to an…

  Albert Einstein

• We are accidents of biochemistry and chance, moving through the world waging wars and writing poems, spellbound by the seductive illusion of the self, every single one of our atoms traceable to some dead star.

  Maria Popova

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  Carl Sagan

• 1. There's more than one way to do something 2. The hate will come at the same rate as the love 3. Do smaller loads of laundry 4. Being vulnerable means taking off our armor 5. Go where the energy goes 6. It's not all about you 7. Expect…

  Becky Harlan, Sylvie Douglas, Andee Tagle

• There is no omniscient and omnipotent wonder algorithm: There are as many intelligences as there are goals and worlds.

  Steven Pinker

• All models are wrong; some models are useful.

  George E. P. Box

• So in the words of the great philosopher Jimmy Buffett: Shit happens.

  Harrison Ford

• Solvitur ambulando

  Latin for “It is solved by walking”

• Making ourselves legible to others is, in essence, the mandate of social media.

  Sophia Stewart