As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in the universe.… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone,… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
