Daniel H. Wilson Quotes
born 1978 United States
Daniel H. Wilson (born March 6, 1978) is an American author, television host and robotics engineer.
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All the old men set to their jobs with the grim robotic work ethic that always belongs to the previous generation.
Amped (2012)
“Most people are good,” says Jim. “But not when they’re afraid.”
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Being young don’t earn you a damn thing in my book.
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Compartmentalized knowledge is a mainstay of spycraft and necessary for any governmental information dissemination process.
The Andromeda Evolution (2019)
Change scares people. Makes them dangerous.
Amped (2012)
Humans need technology.
It’s the one thing that we do better than any other animal. We communicate, cooperate, and make tools to extend our reach. Every new tool changes us.
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Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keep on robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.
It is a well-established Achilles’ heel of human civilization that individuals are more motivated by immediate private reward than by long-term, collective future benefits. This effect is particularly evident when considering payoffs that will take longer than a generation to arrive—a phenomenon called intragenerational discounting.
The Andromeda Evolution (2019)
In the grand scheme of things, all human beings are part of the same family, regardless of origin. The divisions we have built between ourselves along the lines of race and geography are illusions. If our species is ultimately able to see past these biases, it will be our shared genetic stamp of humanness that will outlive the cultural contrivances that distract us in our day-to-day lives.
The Andromeda Evolution (2019)
I’ve heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That’s okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing.
We’re gonna be fine. Different, but fine.
Because most people are good. Right?
Amped (2012)