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"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves."
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"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
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"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."
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"Quite amazing, isn't it, Mister Lipwig?' he said cheerfully through the smoke. 'Though isn't it a pity that they can only run on rails? I can't imagine what the world would be like if everyone had their own steam locomotive. Abominable."
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"When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice."
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"The day internet stops functioning forever, so many works will get missing forever!"
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"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
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"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."
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"I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric."
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"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
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"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world."
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"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
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"In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy."
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"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment."
Change
"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it."
Science
"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
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"One finds limits by pushing them."
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"Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly."
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"The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function."
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"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."
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