Seth Shostak Quotes

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

Seth Shostak

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TimeBelieveComputersThinkingWill

I'm the person friends come to when they want to find the perfect restaurant or boutique hotel on the outskirts of Paris. As opposed to scouring the Internet for a travel guide, wouldn't you rather ask the people who are really cool who go there? That's what I do.

Meghan Markle

TravelPeopleCoolRestaurantHotel

So many people always fear tattoos because they don't want to limit themselves from certain jobs. I clearly never let that stop me and just got covered head to toe.

Jeffree Star

FearPeopleMeStopWantLimit

It doesn't take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too.

Amy Klobuchar

BrokenChildViolenceVictimTake

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

Amy Winehouse

StupidSayPretendingBecauseEasier

I took a drama class in elementary school, and I just remember having so much fun with it. From there, I just studied, got better as I went along, and continued to grow.

Sinqua Walls

SchoolFunGrowBetterRemember

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

Roxane Gay

LoveMeBelieveRelationshipsIdea

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

Mike Krzyzewski

ExperienceFunYouThingsBeenAble

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Juan Williams

LivePeopleCityBlackRichVoting

Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

Joshua Cohen

LanguageThroughCannotUnderstood

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

Johnny Isakson

MotherMoneyNightSayingSomeone

I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.

David Slade

MistakeThinkYouPlaceTryFirst

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

Cornel West

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