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Clive James

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."

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"When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence."

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"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."

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