"I begin every novel with the vow that……" — Richard Dooling
"I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine."
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19 Quotes by Richard Dooling
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Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in…
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Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in…
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At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that…
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Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm…
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Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.
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Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel…
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Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time,…
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And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are…
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As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with…
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As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that…
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I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came…
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I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making…
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