Markevitch Igor Quotes & Sayings

Human individuals and human organizations typically have preferences over resources that are not well represented by an "unbounded aggregative utility function". A human will typically not wager all her capital for a fifty-fifty chance of doubling it. A state will typically not risk losing all its territory for a ten percent chance of a tenfold expansion. [T]he same need not hold for AIs. An AI might therefore be more likely to pursue a risky course of action that has some chance of giving it control of the world. — Nick Bostrom

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. — Igor Markevitch

We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity. — Igor Markevitch

The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When something
needs to be done in the world
to rectify the wrongs,
if one is really concerned
with benefiting others,
one needs to be
engaged, involved.
This is action out of compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

For our entire history, we'd been surviving instead of living. Today, — Svetlana Alexievich

Sebastian had strong features, almost noble when he was out cold. It was when he was conscious that you had to be wary. — Lisa Kessler

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life — Michael Palin