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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. ↗

— Alan Kay

#artificial #artificial intelligence #complex #every #every time

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. ↗

— David Kay

#aggressive #ambitious #chose #course #disagreed

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future. ↗

— David Kay

#analysis #begin #believe #best #ensure

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual. ↗

— David Kay

#believe #certainly #different #estimates #ever

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance. ↗

— David Kay

#apology #came #differed #estimated #existed

The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location. ↗

— David Kay

#case #community #country #discover #discovered

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.' ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#bent #bunch #country #democrats #especially

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#i #like #me #most #my time

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#any #because #between #did #i

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#make #minds #oneself #others #paper