D. W. Wilson Quotes

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.

Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

Banning someone for wanting to ban others is an inappropriate response.

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

I mean, you've got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

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.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.

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.

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.

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

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.

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.

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.

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

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.

You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.

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.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

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.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

My family is very theatrical.

I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

Voice is my instrument.

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained the boat by myself because I liked being alone.

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.