It is ironic that of all countries in Europe, France was the only one that could have had a revolution - not because she groaned under the lash of tyranny, but, on the contrary, because she tolerated and even invited every conceivable dissension and heresy. Restlessness, a passion for novelty and the pursuit of excitement were everywhere in the air. They were the fruits of idleness and leisure, not of poverty.
- From Paris in The Terror, June 1793 - July 1794 by Stanley Loomis
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Those who are likely to pose an imminent threat to your nation or to others will try to disguise their conduct so by the time you might be able to perceive that the threat is real and indeed imminent, the danger will have already soared far past any hope of prevention and you may be unable to thwart it.
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Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, was asked these questions by some five-year-olds at a Beijing kindergarten:
"Are we going to have robot teachers?"
"What if one robot car bumps into another robot car and then we get hurt?"
"Will people marry robots and have babies with them?"
"Are computers going to become so smart that they can boss us around?"
"If robots do everything, then what are we going to do?"
- From AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
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