Jaan Tallinn Quotes

Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

Jaan Tallinn

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ChallengeFocusBuildingSpeedYou

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

John Barrowman

WomenKnowSeriouslyReasonSeem

I am 6 foot 2 inches, and one of the benefits of that is having long legs.

Andreja Pejic

I AmLongLegsFootBenefitsInches

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Robert Moog

PerformanceInformationDownHuman

I've never been a very flashy person.

Ana Ivanovic

PersonNeverBeenVeryFlashy

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Alvin Ailey

LiveDanceRacismYourselfWorld

A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.

Stephen R. George

BooksOfferAcceptedAfterWeeks

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?

Steven Pinker

OceanMoonFlyTreesInternetFish

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

Stewart Brand

NatureGodStartDoingYouRight

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

Michael Schudson

WorkWondersPublicExtent

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

Didier Drogba

DestinyBelieveThinkI BelieveLot

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

Bret Stephens

LiveWorldDataAuthorityWayWhich

The Lord has blessed me to play this game. I'm going to try to play it as long as I can. But at the same time, I want to be able to watch my kids grow up, so I've gotten to where I'm a little more mild, and I don't take golf as seriously as I did in the earlier years of my career.

Boo Weekley

TimeMeBlessedGameGrowGolf

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