Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Arne Garborg: Cannot be had for money
“For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor;…
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Tom Chatfield: Artificial idiocy
“Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” —Tom Chatfield.
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Bob Marley: Real boyfriend
“A real boyfriend knows his girl like the back of his hand. He knows when she’s mad, sad, aggravated, happy, hurt…because that’s his girl.” —Bob Marley.
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David H Wagner: Carve away and drop the bullshit
“On this path, we are making a bet that underneath all of that, you are big and powerful and good. All of that power, that wisdom, and that excellence is your true nature. All you have to do is carve away and drop the bullshit.” —David H. Wagner, Backbone: The Modern Man’s Ultimate Guide to…
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Liam Hemsworth: Privacy
“I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you’ve asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don’t think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.” —Liam Hemsworth.
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Sylvester Stallone: Build mountains
“If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.” —Sylvester Stallone.
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Geisha Williams: Tough jobs
“Don’t be afraid to take the tough jobs. You’ll develop confidence in dealing with tough issues that will serve you for the rest of your career.” —Geisha Williams.
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Robert John Meehan: Different from winning
“The current reformers do not realize that learning is different from winning. Teachers can have the best game plan but they can’t pick their teams.” —Robert John Meehan.
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Millie Bobby Brown: Deadly serious
“I’m very outspoken. I will ask a silly question, but I really am deadly serious. I’m like, ‘I want to know the answer.’” —Millie Bobby Brown.
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Steve Polyak: Natural stupidity
“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?” —Steve Polyak.
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Elon Musk: Summoning the demon
“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.” —Elon Musk.
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Nick Bilton: Upheavals
“The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.” — Nick Bilton.
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Elon Musk: Pace close to exponential
“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year timeframe. 10 years at most.”…
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Larry Page: Ultimate version of Google
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we…
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Claude Shannon: Rooting for the machines
“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” —Claude Shannon.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Science and religion
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Horace: Coin new words
“Men ever had, and ever will have leave, / To coin new words well suited to the age, / Words are like leaves, some wither every year, / And every year a younger race succeeds.” —Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE).
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Mary Karr: Dysfunction
“If dysfunction means that a family doesnt work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners – the whole enchilada.” —Mary Karr.
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Satya Nadella: Digitized
“You look at marketing: everything that’s happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that’s happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that’s driven by information technology. It’s no longer discrete.” —Satya Nadella.
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Elon Musk: No hard feelings
“AI doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard feelings.” -– Elon Musk.
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Yoshua Bengio: What’s right and what’s wrong
“I don’t think that any of the human faculties is something inherently inaccessible to computers. I would say that some aspects of humanity are less accessible and creativity of the kind that we appreciate is probably one that is going to be something that’s going to take more time to reach. But maybe even more…
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Douglas William Jerrold: Erath, so kind
“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.” – – -Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist (3 Jan 1803-1857).
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Kevin Kelly: Tell us who we are
“Over the past 60 years, as mechanical processes have replicated behaviors and talents we thought were unique to humans, we’ve had to change our minds about what sets us apart. As we invent more species of AI, we will be forced to surrender more of what is supposedly unique about humans. We’ll spend the next…
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Andrew Ng: Opportunity to thrive
“Much has been written about AI’s potential to reflect both the best and the worst of humanity. For example, we have seen AI providing conversation and comfort to the lonely; we have also seen AI engaging in racial discrimination. Yet the biggest harm that AI is likely to do to individuals in the short term…
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Neil Jacobstein: Human stupidity
“It’s not artificial intelligence I’m worried about, it’s human stupidity.” —Neil Jacobstein.
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Yuval Noah Harari: Best archetype
“You want to know how super-intelligent cyborgs might treat ordinary flesh-and-blood humans? Better start by investigating how humans treat their less intelligent animal cousins. It’s not a perfect analogy, of course, but it is the best archetype we can actually observe rather than just imagine.” —Yuval Noah Harari.
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Tulip Siddiq: Public safety
“As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one…is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.” —Tulip Siddiq.
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Mignon McLaughlin: Cowards of us all
“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.” —Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author.
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Simon Sinek: Patterns
“There may be patterns for the things that succeed, that doesn’t mean there’s a formula for success.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stephen Hawking: Real risk with AI
“The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A superintelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in trouble. You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project…
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Joel Osteen: Misery loves company
“Misery loves company. Don’t find five depressed friends and sit around and talk about how bad life is. Find some friends that are happy, energetic, positive. You need to be around people that are fun, people that laugh, people that brighten your day.” —Joel Osteen.
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Robbie Williams: Success
“It’s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.” —Robbie Williams.
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Anna Faris: Big sleeping bag of guilt
“Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.” —Anna Faris.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Public service
“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Katherine Schwarzenegger: Shopping
“Shopping is a great way to bond with the girls, but it definitely makes us focus on our bodies and compare ourselves to others. Something that should be a fun outing with the girls can turn into an uncomfortable experience.” —Katherine Schwarzenegger.
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James Watson: Young researchers
“Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.” —James Watson.
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Bella Lewitzky: Deeply rooted
“To move freely you must be deeply rooted.” —Bella Lewitzky, dancer (13 Jan 1916-2004).
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Extremely improbable
“Under existing conditions it is extremely improbable that Jesus would have been permitted to be born at all. Mary’s pregnancy, in poor circumstances, and with the father unknown, would have been an obvious case for an abortion. And her talk of having conceived as a result of the intervention of the Holy Ghost would have pointed…
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Bob Burg: Something kind and complimentary
‘Play the “Reverse Gossip” game and say something kind and complimentary behind someone’s back.’ —Bob Burg.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Sport and entertainment
‘People say, “We have no king and queen in America.” I say we have a king in America. His name is Sport; and his wife’s name is Entertainment.’ —Leonard Ravenhill.
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Brendan O’Carroll: Writing comedy
“If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you’ll please nobody.” —Brendan O’Carroll.
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Carole King: Friendship
“Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love – it’s a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don’t expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.” —Carole King.
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Marcus Antonius: Anger and grief
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” —Marcus Antonius.
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George Ezra: Makes my skin crawl
“Some people don’t care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.” —George Ezra.
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Rachel Weisz: Stand-up comedians risk more
“It’s also that comedians don’t have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They’re writers who perform their own material. It’s more interesting. And they’re sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.” —Rachel Weisz.
