Philip Roth Quotes

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.

The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence.

The field of AI has traditionally been focused on computational intelligence, not on social or emotional intelligence. Yet being deficient in emotional intelligence (EQ) can be a great disadvantage in society.

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

People are basically irritating. Myself included.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose what may be most ill about them, or confirm what may be best. The faithful woman and the versatile brave man, the wakeful intelligence open to inspiration or grace-these are still exemplary for our kind, as they always were and always will be.

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.