The best Quotes by Steven Pinker

Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

Virtual Reality

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Humanity Empathy

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

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Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can and virtual reality to accept the things I can't.

Virtual Reality

The Metaverse is being made by Microsoft and Facebook, so you know it's gonna be boring as sh-t.

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

Virtual Reality

The fact that all of this was happening in virtual space made no difference. Being virtually killed by virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

Douglas Adams

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming.

Mark Zuckerberg

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality doesn't replace television or cinema. Nothing goes away. People said radio was the end to literature and TV was the end of radio. But we still read books and listen to the radio and watch TV.

Virtual Reality

The incredible thing about Virtual Reality is that you feel like you're actually present in another place with other people. People who try it say it's different from anything they've ever experienced in their lives.

Mark Zuckerberg

Virtual Reality

There's nobody who works in VR saying, "Oh, I'm bored with this." Everybody comes back.

Gabe Newell

Virtual Reality

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

Hillary Clinton

Virtual Reality

I'm excited about Augmented Reality because unlike Virtual Reality, which closes the world out, AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what's happening presently.

Tim Cook

Virtual Reality

My name is Shubham, and I'm 23 years old, and I'm from California. I am a virtual-reality designer.

Shubham Goel in The Circle - Season 1 Episode 1

Virtual Reality

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Humanity Weapons Nuclear Weapons

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.

John Coffey in The Green Mile

Humanity

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Humanity Criminal Minds

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

Humanity Appearance

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

H. P. Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu

Humanity Creation

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Universe Humanity Foolishness

"Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."

Charles Bukowski in Barfly

Humanity

The difference from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.

Fynn in Mister God, This is Anna

Humanity Angels Appearance

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain

Humanity Gratitude Animals Dogs

In this world, there are very few people who actually trust each other.

Light Yagami in Death Note

Humanity

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

Tarana Burke

Empathy

I do not lack empathy. Other people just need to be better.

Qiyana, Empress of the Elements in League of Legends

Empathy

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

John Hickenlooper

Democracy Empathy

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Sterling K. Brown

Empathy

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction "Love the neighbor as thyself."

George McGovern

Neighbors Empathy

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Maya Angelou

Empathy

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

Empathy

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

Smartphones

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