Richard Dooling

The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and…

— Richard Dooling

As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines…

— Richard Dooling

Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house…

— Richard Dooling

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.…

— Richard Dooling

I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I…

— Richard Dooling

Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits…

— Richard Dooling

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use…

— Richard Dooling

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one…

— Richard Dooling

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end…

— Richard Dooling

As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous…

— Richard Dooling

Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court,…

— Richard Dooling

The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in…

— Richard Dooling

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until…

— Richard Dooling

I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about…

— Richard Dooling

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…

— Richard Dooling

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading…

— Richard Dooling

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk.…

— Richard Dooling

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about…

— Richard Dooling

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

— Richard Dooling

“Sentences that begin with 'You' are probably not true. For instance, when I write: "You are a pet human named Morlock being…

— Richard Dooling

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about…

— Richard Dooling

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that…

— Richard Dooling