Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower who can smile, laugh, giggle, dance, love and sing with mother earth.
If you are doing what you love to do and on the way helping the humanity, then you are a success.
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.
The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.
We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.
As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
