Luis von Ahn Quotes

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Luis von Ahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
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  • Birth: 1979

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There was nothing postracial about my experience, and there still isn't.

Jesmyn Ward

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Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.

John Grant

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Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

Meg Cabot

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It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

Michael Fassbender

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My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

Steve Earle

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We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.

Sonny Perdue

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Sigmund Freud

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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Simon Raven

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I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

Roger Federer

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I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

Roger Federer

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I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

Judy Sheindlin

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I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

Julia Glass

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