Bernard Avishai quotes

Bernard Avishai quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.”
-- Bernard Avishai

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“Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.”
“Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.”
“God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.”
“My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.”
“Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.”
“The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.”
“It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.”
“I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.”

Source : "The Accidental Success of Adam Driver". Interview with Alex Morris, www.rollingstone.com. January 20, 2014.
“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”
“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

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