#wards

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#actual #ai #any #being #being there

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#awards #because #conditions #directors #film

We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#borders #capital #cause #dream #establishing

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#afterwards #anything #hard #really #then

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. ↗

— Eric Holder

#been #continue #cowards #essentially #ethnic

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#away #becomes #been #death #deeper

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#mind #more #original #powerful #religion

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#capable #carry #heart #less #loving

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#cowards #makes #us