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“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.”

Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

“But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Soul Self Running Jesus Failing Risk Ignorance Comfort Comfortable Destruction Tragedy Illness My Soul Uncertainty Midst Serving Terrified Complacency Self Serving Comfortable Life

Author:Katie Davis

“I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Self Jesus Failing Comfortable Tragedy Illness Serving Terrified Self Serving Comfortable Life

Book:Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

“In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.”

Actors Cases Failing Position Directors Comfortable Harder

Author:Jean Dujardin

“The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice.”

Ifs Men Law Creative Failing Sea Advice Rocks Genius Comfortable Green Salvation Work Out Silly Tea Sensations Shore Ads Pipe Matured Quicksand Afraid Of Failure Watchfulness Endymion

Author:John Keats

“Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.”

Thinking Way Humans Bigs Seems Bits Situation Audience Failing Fronts Comfortable Stranger

Author:Miranda July

“Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.”

Want Choices Failing Risk Ambition Comfortable Bored

Author:Steve Coogan

“I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.”

Trying Firsts Wish Failing Possibility Succeed Comfortable Approach Phrases Endeavor Cycling Business Life

Author:John C. Maxwell