- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.
- Nov 07, 2020
Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.
- Nov 07, 2020
This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world and the environment better, it can make life so much better for many of us. Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery I think AI has the potential to free up humanity from a lot of the mental drudgery.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the world will just be better if AI is helping us. It will reduce the cost of goods, giving us good education, changing the way we run hospitals and the health-care system - there's just a long list of things.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the founding lead of the Google Brain team, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and now overall lead of Baidu's AI team of some 1,200 people, I've been privileged to nurture many of the world's leading AI groups and have built many AI products that are used by hundreds of millions of people.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive. Understanding what AI can do and how it fits into your strategy is the beginning, not the end, of that process.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am super optimistic about the near-term prospects of AI because every time there is a technological disruption, it gives us the opportunity of making the world a little different.
- Cats
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- Nov 07, 2020