Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Damian Duffy Mingle: Aim for simplicity
“Aim for simplicity in Data Science. Real creativity won’t make things more complex. Instead, it will simplify them.” —Damian Duffy Mingle.
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Pedro Domingos: Too stupid
“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” —Pedro Domingos.
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Takeshi Kitano: Humour
“Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.” —Takeshi Kitano.
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Gerard Way: Being happy
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” — Gerard Way.
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John C Bogle: Can’t be measured
“As I have earlier noted, the most important things in life and in business can’t be measured. The trite bromide ‘If you can measure it, you can manage it’ has been a hindrance in the building a great real-world organization, just as it has been a hindrance in evaluating the real-world economy. It is character,…
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Oscar Wilde: Comma
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.” ~ Oscar Wilde.
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Benjamin Franklin: Little strokes
“Little Strokes, Fell great oaks.” — Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (17 Jan 1706-1790).
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Doug Bernard: Difficult to appreciate
“The easy path is only easy in the short term and the long path is only hard in the short term. If you stick with them over time, the paths switch. The short game becomes a headwind and the long game becomes a tailwind. This is difficult to appreciate.” —Doug Bernard.
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Claude M Bristol: Repetitive words and phrases
“These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.” —Claude M. Bristol.
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Sade Adu: Tribal structure and prestige
“There isn’t a class structure in Nigeria, there’s a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.” —Sade Adu.
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Charlie Munger: Back-ass-ward
‘Students of America go to these elite business schools and law schools and they learn corporate finance the way it’s now taught and investment management the way it’s now taught. And some of these people write articles in the newspaper and other places and they say, “Well, the whole secret of investment is diversification.” That’s…
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George Johnson: Manipulating symbols
“Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn’t matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of…
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Anand Krish: Human disciplines
“The field of Artificial Intelligence is set to conquer most of the human disciplines; from art and literature to commerce and sociology; from computational biology and decision analysis to games and puzzles.” ~Anand Krish.
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Terry Winograd: Techniques of artificial intelligence
“The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.” ~Terry Winograd.
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Mark Cuban: Learn it
“Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, machine learning — whatever you’re doing if you don’t understand it — learn it. Because otherwise you’re going to be a dinosaur within 3 years.” ~Mark Cuban.
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Dave Waters: Trust AI to do your job
“If people trust artificial intelligence (AI) to drive a car, people will most likely trust AI to do your job.” ~Dave Waters.
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Kristian J Hammond: Core intellectual property
“Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. These companies are investing millions into intelligent systems for situation assessment, prediction analysis, learning-based recognition systems, conversational interfaces, and recommendation engines. Companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon aren’t just employing AI, but have made it a central part of their core intellectual…
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Stephen Hawking: No deep difference
“I believe there is no deep difference between what can be achieved by a biological brain and what can be achieved by a computer. It, therefore, follows that computers can, in theory, emulate human intelligence — and exceed it.” —Stephen Hawking.
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Stephen Hawking: Genie out of the bottle
“The genie is out of the bottle. We need to move forward on artificial intelligence development but we also need to be mindful of its very real dangers. I fear that AI may replace humans altogether. If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that replicates itself. This will be a new form of…
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Andrew Ng: Should radiologists be worried about their jobs?
“Should radiologists be worried about their jobs? Breaking news: We can now diagnose pneumonia from chest X-rays better than radiologists.” – Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and Stanford University professor.
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Bernard J Tyson: Make human bodies interesting
“We need to make our human bodies interesting. Just like how we get into our cars and technology allows us to know how much air is in our tires. Some people know more about the air in their tires than about their blood pressure or sugar levels.” —Bernard J Tyson.
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Ariana Huffington: Disentangling wisdom from intelligence
“Part of our wish list for our lives and our future should be disentangling wisdom from intelligence. In our era of Big Data and algorithms, they’re easy to conflate.” —Ariana Huffington.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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David Foster: Uncompromising
“I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it’s served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, ‘Compromise breeds mediocrity.’ Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not…
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Jim Yong Kim: Evidence-based and data-driven
“What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you’ve got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.”…
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Vladimir Putin: Bitter medicine
“The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.” —Vladimir Putin.
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Ogden Nash: Preparing to overwhelm
‘I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.’ —Ogden Nash.
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Jeff Hawkins: Representation
“The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.” —Jeff Hawkins.
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Mark Zukerberg: Arguing against AI
“Whenever I hear people saying AI is going to hurt people in the future I think, yeah, technology can generally always be used for good and bad and you need to be careful about how you build it … if you’re arguing against AI then you’re arguing against safer cars that aren’t going to have…
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G K Chesterton: Wrong arguments on right side
“I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.” —G K Chesterton.
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Konstantin Stanislavski: Flee from it
“Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.” —Konstantin Stanislavski.
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Miley Cyrus: Much easier to know
“It’s so much easier to know who you are when there aren’t a thousand people telling you who they think you are.” —Miley Cyrus.
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Areva Martin: Monetize your appearances
“The key is to monetize your appearances so you don’t fall into the trap of having thousands of followers but no revenue. It’s easy to be famous but broke.” —Areva Martin, Make It Rain!: How to Use the Media to Revolutionize Your Business & Brand.
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Daniel Kahneman: Heuristic biases
“By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.” —Daniel Kahneman.
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David Cameron: Done to people
“There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.” —David Cameron.
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Indra Nooyi: Assume positive intent
“When you assume negative intent, you’re angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.” —Indra Nooyi.
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Joseph Sobran: Rhetoric of liberty
“The doctrine that the genetically unique human being in the womb may be killed at another’s whim, however this doctrine is disguised in the rhetoric of liberty, is a false and self-contradictory conception of freedom. It is like speaking of the liberty of the slave owner.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Rihanna: Jacket
“More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.” —Rihanna.
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Alain Badiou: Serenity in love
“There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.” —Alain Badiou.
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Carl Sagan: Not all laughed at are geniuses
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” —Carl Sagan.
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James Woods: Narcissism
“The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement – particularly men, I don’t know why, maybe it’s the testosterone – I think it’s narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.” —James Woods.
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John O’Connor: Abortion
“What is Abortion? Do you think it’s the taking of innocent human life or don’t you? If you do, then translate it: How can we talk about a rational foreign policy or the horrors of nuclear war if we hold the position that you can take innocent human life?” —Archbishop John O’Connor.
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Sebastian Kurz: Gets better each passing day
“We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don’t have to despair just because you’re young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.” —Sebastian Kurz.
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Joseph Sobran: Abortion
“Abortion can’t be portrayed as the cutting up of a living human being. It has to be presented abstractly…The gross act is etherealized into an “issue” pitting civic-minded people against the boors. No pictures, please. Only vulgar pro-lifers would want to force anyone to watch.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Peter Kreeft: Abortion
‘Abortion is the Antichrist’s demonic parody of the Eucharist. That’s why it uses the same holy words, “This is my body,” with the blasphemous opposite meaning.’ —Peter Kreeft
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ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY: Different timescale
‘The AI runs on a different timescale than you do; by the time your neurons finish thinking the words “I should do something” you have already lost.’ —ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY, Global Catastrophic Risks.
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Kevin Drum: It’s coming anyway
‘It really doesn’t matter if artificial intelligence is distracting us from whatever you think the “real” problem is. It’s coming anyway.’ —KEVIN DRUM, “Artificial Intelligence Is Coming Whether You Like It Or Not”, Mother Jones, February 6, 2017.
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Elon Musk: Potentially more dangerous than nukes
“We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.” —ELON MUSK, Twitter post, August 2, 2014.
