Ben Goertzel quotes

Ben Goertzel quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.”
-- Ben Goertzel

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“Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.”
-- Ben Goertzel

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“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”
“Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?”
“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.
“The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.”
“As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.”

Source : Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.”
“...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. They either attach themselves to God's will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God's will, are justly subjected to what He permits, and sink wretchedly from bad to worse.”

Source : "The homilies".
“It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement...”
“Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.”
“I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.”

Source : "Twenty-Five Years: 1892-1916". Book by Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 1925.

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