The best Quotes from Machines Like Me

Millions dying of diseases we know how to cure. Millions living in poverty when there's enough to go around. We degrade the biosphere when we know it's our only home. We threaten each other with nuclear weapons when we know where it could lead. We love living things but we permit a mass extinction of species. And all the rest – genocide, torture, enslavement, domestic murder, child abuse, school shootings, rape and scores of daily outrages. We live alongside this torment and aren't amazed when we still find happiness, even love. Artificial minds are not so well defended.

Ian McEwan

Factory settings - a contemporary synonym for fate.

Ian McEwan

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When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Ian McEwan in Enduring Love

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

Ian McEwan in Enduring Love

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

Ian McEwan in Enduring Love

Eroticism

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

Ian McEwan in On Chesil Beach

He was discovering that being in love was not a steady state, but a matter of fresh surges or waves, and he was experiencing one now.

Ian McEwan in On Chesil Beach

It was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

Ian McEwan in On Chesil Beach

They regarded themselves as too sophisticated to believe in destiny, but still, it remained a paradox to them that so momentous a meeting should be accidental, so dependent on a hundred minor events and choices. What a terrifying possibility, that it might never have happened at all.

Ian McEwan in On Chesil Beach

It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.

Ian McEwan in On Chesil Beach

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Ian McEwan in On Chesil Beach

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Ian McEwan in Enduring Love

When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.

Ian McEwan in On Chesil Beach

It was always the view of my parents that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

Ian McEwan

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

Ian McEwan in Atonement

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

Ian McEwan in Atonement

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

Ian McEwan in Atonement

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Ian McEwan in Atonement

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.

Ian McEwan in Atonement

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

Ian McEwan in Atonement

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Ian McEwan in The Cockroach

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Decisions Morality

I am nervous about the impact AI is going to have on future elections. Personalized 1:1 persuasion, combined with high-quality generated media, is going to be a powerful force.

Sam Altman - September 2022

Artificial Intelligence Elections & Voting

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

Sam Altman

Artificial Intelligence

Don't you ever tire of letting your dick do the thinking?

Joe in Enduring Love

Joe: "You're mad!"
Jed: "They said that about Jesus."
Joe: "They said it about a lot of mad people as well."

Joe in Enduring Love

As much as the father tried to keep the dangers of the world out... the outside world had a way of sneaking in.

Sweet Tooth - Season 1 Episode 1

Danger

Some stories start at the beginning. Ours begins here.

Sweet Tooth - Season 1 Episode 1

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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