Daniel H. Wilson quotes - page 2

As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing. (Daniel H. Wilson)
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels. View quote
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...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm. View quote
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We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world. View quote
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It's dangerous to be people-blind. View quote
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Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me. View quote
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To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest. View quote
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Technology changes, but people stay the same. View quote
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There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment. View quote
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Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding. View quote
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When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long. (Daniel H. Wilson)
Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality. View quote
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In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. View quote
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For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety. View quote
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The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s. View quote
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How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air. View quote
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A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans. View quote
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Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes. View quote
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A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls. View quote
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If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out. View quote
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It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think. (Daniel H. Wilson)
You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now. View quote
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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back. View quote
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A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry. View quote
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I'm not saying you have to keep up. But at the moment you choose to stop growing, your world will begin to shrink. You'll be able to communicate with fewer people, especially the young. You will only see reruns. You will not understand how to pay for things. The outside world will become a frightening and unpredictable place. View quote
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