Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

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• I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now,…
• The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.
• People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.
• If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.
• Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the…
• Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
• I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
• There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.
• As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and…
• As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK.…
• Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We…
• Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want…
• I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to…
• I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where…
• I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact…
• When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.
• Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and…
• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to…
• Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe…
• Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires.…

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