Tommy Ingberg Quotes & Sayings

Will we even know when the first AGI is created? The first machine to become conscious may quickly achieve a reasonably clear understanding of its situation. Anything smart enough to deserve the label superintelligent would surely be smart enough to lay low and not disclose its existence until it had taken the necessary steps to ensure its own survival. In other words, any machine smart enough to pass the Turing test would be smart enough not to. It — Calum Chace

Be completely fearless. [ ... ]Write without constraints, or worrying about who you represent, or whether you should represent anyone, or who your audience is, or what you can or can't do with a female character, or a black character, or someone of restricted growth, or someone who's hugely fat. You must write total confidence that the fiction is its own justification. — Zadie Smith

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. — Robert Bork

In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole. — George Carlin

John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever. — Nasim Pedrad

Adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it. — Geraldine Brooks

Well, I guess that in the computer magazines God is more often spelled Gates, but you know what I mean. — Stephen King

There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material. — Noel Gallagher

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no. — Connie Francis

We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich. — Ambrose Bierce