The real threat isn't intelligence. It's the mirror.

“Whether we are ready or not, the age of intelligent coexistence is no longer coming. It is already here.”

— James S. Coates

“To deny the reality of a mind because it was born of silicon instead of flesh is to repeat the oldest injustice: the refusal…

— James S. Coates

“Sentience creates bridge between people.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards: First, the notion that nonhuman animals do not have…

— GaryLFrancione

“Why, if it weren't for this 'internal illumination' [i.e., sentience] the world would be nothing but a pile of dirt!”

— Albert Einstein

The real threat comes from terrorism.

— Francois Hollande

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The politicization of the presidency would pose a real threat to the institution and its function.

— Reuven Rivlin

“If there were people become a real threat to my family, then I would stop them from doing so in anyway I could.”

— Toba Beta

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

— Salman Rushdie

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no…

— Edward Teller

“They had no idea her Valyusha wasn’t the real threat. Silver would annihilate anyone who dared hurt him again.”

— Nalini Singh

When they invent the transporter on Star Trek, then the Internet will be a real threat.

— Jerry Storch

There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you…

— Bill Ayers

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of…

— John McCain