Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.

Robert J. Sawyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 29, 1960

Topics

IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence

As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as ambitious in scope as we possibly can.

Joe Russo

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I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.

Joe Arpaio

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Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

John Cassavetes

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A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Robert McNamara

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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Ann Patchett

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I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

Method Man

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We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming.

Solomon Burke

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You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.

Skylar Astin

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'Squidbillies' is pretty educational.

Slim Jimmy

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When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

Roger Morris

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When you hire Sam Jackson, he'll figure out the character, and he'll figure out the character's look, and he'll provide it to you. With Sam Jackson, you basically yell 'action', you go get a sandwich, and you come back and yell 'cut.'

Rod Lurie

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I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior.

Rosamund Pike

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