The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Designs fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative
objects nor works of art.
~ Dieter Rams
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I don’t think we do a service to anyone to pretend that technology does not eliminate some jobs. Some jobs it just makes much better. But the arc of this has been that every technological revolution eliminates one class, one sets of jobs, and we find new ones on the other side that are hard to imagine from where we sit today.
~ Sam Altman
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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.
~ Franz Kafka
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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted.
~ Walter Kirn
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The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse.
~ Herta Müller
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~ James Baldwin
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In a very deep sense, I think the biggest miracle that we need to create the super powerful A.I. is already behind us. It’s already in the rearview mirror. We just needed an algorithm that could learn and a network architecture that could somehow encode the knowledge and the capability to reason.
~ Sam Altman
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