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Richard Dooling is an American novelist born in 1954. His works primarily focus on suspense and crime novels, which have gained him a wide readership.

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“Sentences that begin with 'You' are probably not true. For instance, when I write: "You are a pet human named Morlock being disciplined by your master, a Beowulf cluster of FreeBSD 22.0 servers in the year 2052. Last week you tried to escape by digging a hole under the perimeter, which means this week you may be put to sleep for being a renegade human." That's not true, at least not yet.”

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Book:Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ

Source: Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ

“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 people are at their worst.”

People Worst Dangerous Judging Behavior Court Criminals Lawyer Good People Bad People

Author: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 to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.”

World Real Home House Lines Rooms Path Car Design Keys Computer Command Flaws Real World Interfaces Car Keys Folders Honda

Book:Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ

Source: Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ

“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 away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.”

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Author: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. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me.”

Ifs Firsts Children Care Mother Left Sick Take Care Infant Over 50

Author:Richard Dooling

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

Running Technology Suspicion Information Age

Author: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 end-of-life care.”

Ends Care Right Now Paid Medicare End Of Life Pacemakers

Author: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 them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.”

Ifs Men Helping Use Animal Fire Fate Building Machines Stealing Doom Doorstep

Author: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 eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.”

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Author: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 idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.”

Ideas Sound Differences Dangerous Right Now Picks Offensive Associates Dangerous Things Dangerous Ideas

Author:Richard Dooling

“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 sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?”

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Author:Richard Dooling

“I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.”

Years Firsts Whole Care Wanted Critical Whole Year

Author: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.”

Knows Writing Ends Happens Three Technology Novel Hell Mines Obsession Catholicism Vow

Author: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 swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.”

People Thinking Want Should Government Able Law Given Situation Instinct Appropriate Swear Federal Government Swearing

Author: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 the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.”

Kind Limits Taxes Waste Computer Phones Always Working Answering The Phone

Author:Richard Dooling

“Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.”

Moments Seems Moving Streets Wall Making Money Splits Hong Kong Velocity

Author: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 the universe. So ultimately I knew if I was going to handle this in a fictional format, I would have to take a subsection of neuroscience, and that turned out to be the use of neuroscience in criminal courts.”

Ifs Firsts Use Universe Term Brain Court Storm Criminals Handle Neuroscience Format

Author: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 Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.”

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Author:Richard Dooling

About the Author

Born: 1954
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 18

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