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"It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."
"In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all."
"If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred."
"Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?"
"Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed."
"The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous."
"I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen."
"The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be."
"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling."
"It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised."
"There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid."
"Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke."
"To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good."
"If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell."
"There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown."
"If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag."
"All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided."
"There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category."
"Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem."
"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."
