Martin Svoboda added quotes (page 5) | Quotes of famous people

“Competitions are for horses, not artists.”

Béla Bartók (1881–1945) Hungarian composer and pianist

“When you attack us, you will see our faces. Not our backs, but our faces.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

Context: But if we come under attack, if we face an attempt to take away our country, our freedom, our lives and the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves. When you attack us, you will see our faces. Not our backs, but our faces.

“The fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/europe/ukraine-zelensky-evacuation-intl/index.html

“The most terrible iron is not missiles, aircraft, and tanks, but shackles.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

Source: https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1562384096130736128

“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”

Anthony Hopkins (1937) Welsh stage and television actor

“In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.”

Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) Colombian writer and philosopher

“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: Computerworld 25th Anniversary edition, June 22, 1992, p 43, https://books.google.com/books?id=eiRpHBklEHQC&pg=RA1-PA42&lpg=RA1-PA42&dq=computerworld+%2B+a+person+matures+embarrassment&source=bl&ots=bMx50Sem4y&sig=hzsMesVv-vntfgEfrroBc0YrorQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi93rKcucDJAhVL22MKHTBvCDAQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=computerworld%20%2B%20a%20person%20matures%20embarrassment&f=false

“Any possibility for improving the effective utilization of the intellectual power of society’s problem solvers warrants the most serious consideration. This is because man’s problem-solving capability represents possibly the most important resource possessed by a society. The other contenders for first importance are all critically dependent for their development and use upon this resource.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138

“Payoff will come when we make better use of computers to bring communities of people together and to augment the very human skills that people bring to bear on difficult problems.”

Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor

Source: https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/348/000/#annotations:AVM5A_shH9ZO4OKSlBtx

“If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it. No hard feelings.”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/06/elon-musk-warns-ai-could-create-immortal-dictator-in-documentary.html
Context: If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it. No hard feelings. It’s just like, if we’re building a road and an anthill just happens to be in the way, we don’t hate ants, we’re just building a road, and so, goodbye anthill.

“I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

“I think there are probably too many smart people pursuing Internet stuff, finance, and law, that is part of the reason why we haven’t seen as much innovation.”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

Source: Book Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

“If the design takes too long to build, it’s a bad design.”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

Source: https://qz.com/1718402/elon-musk-says-his-starship-will-fly-to-orbit-in-six-months/
Context: If the design takes too long to build, it’s a bad design. If the schedule is long, it’s wrong; if it’s tight, it’s right.