Daniel H. Wilson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.”
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“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”
-- Daniel H. WilsonSource : Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
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“If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.”
-- Daniel H. WilsonSource : "Dan Wilson's HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING Acquired by Jack Black and Steve Pink" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. October 22, 2010.
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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.”
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“I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.”
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“Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.”
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“Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.”
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“If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.”
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“People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.”
-- Daniel H. WilsonSource : Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
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“The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.”
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“I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.”
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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.”
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“You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.”
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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.”
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“There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.”
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“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.”
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“Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.”
-- Daniel H. WilsonSource : Daniel H. Wilson (2014). “Robogenesis: A Novel”, p.333, Vintage
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“We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.”
-- Daniel H. WilsonSource : Daniel H. Wilson (2014). “Robogenesis: A Novel”, p.263, Vintage
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“Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.”
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“We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.”
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“We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.”
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“When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.”
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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.”
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“I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.”
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“I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.”
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“Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.”
-- Daniel H. WilsonSource : "How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". Washington Post Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.
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“Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.”
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“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. WilsonSource : "Implants to make us smarter? An interview with amped author Daniel H.Wilson" by Kathy Ceceri, www.wired.com. June 25, 2012.
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“Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.”
-- Daniel H. WilsonSource : Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
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“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.”
-- Daniel H. WilsonSource : Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
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