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“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
― Gifts
― Gifts
“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans.
It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.”
― Robot Visions
It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.”
― Robot Visions
“Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule”
― Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
― Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
“You will never face an evil you have not the strength to master.”
― Duncton Wood
― Duncton Wood
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