J. E. B. Stuart Quotes

No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that than we have about build a faster-than-light spaceship.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

I expect that people are going to feel differently about that once they're aware that AI systems can watch through a camera and can, in some sense, understand what it's seeing.

Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

I've been a loyal person all my life and I'd like to finish my career here

I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath

You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

His return gives England another key to its bow.

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job.

I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.

I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have a smile on my face.

I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for. (on Manchester City players)

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you.

It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into 'psycho, psycho'!

Suddenly, I win the derby and people are talking about England again. It is absolutely pathetic

Glenn is going to bring a couple of sumo costumes down so we might have a dust-up in the technical area, that should make good TV

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

I am nothing without the players.

If we go out there and do our best every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

I hope we get a decision shortly - I will be dead soon. (on wanting to be Man City manager)

When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realize how naive I was then. I feel much better suited for the job now. (on being Manchester City manager)

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day. (on being Manchester City manager)

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

Any take, anything that's recorded while the mic is on, that could be the final take.

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.

I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

I want to please every woman, every time.

I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.

Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.

I don't believe in retirement.