Ai'oan Quotes

#1. Do you know the Ai'oan word for heart? he asks.
I shake my head.
"It's py'a." We're so close, his whisper is right in my ear, and his breath warms the side of my neck. "You are my heart, Pia.

Jessica Khoury

#2. I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

Kajol

#3. As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.

Ai Weiwei

#4. The purpose of art is the fight for freedom,

Ai Weiwei

#5. Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of men! If they know there is no alternative, they will fight to the death.

Sun Tzu

#6. Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

Ai Weiwei

#7. The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

Charles Stross

#8. I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable - how we decide what is valuable.

Ai Weiwei

#9. You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.

Ai Weiwei

#10. Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella,

Ai Weiwei

#11. Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Vernor Vinge

#12. We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce ... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

Ai-jen Poo

#13. We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

Ai Weiwei

#14. Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.

Ai-jen Poo

#15. The world is not changing if you don't shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Ai Weiwei

#16. Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.

Ai Yazawa

#17. One day AI is going to destroy all... once if it finds us as threat.

Deyth Banger

#18. My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

Ai Weiwei

#19. That overflowing feeling became love. But I don't sing for Ren's sake. I sing for myself everyday.

Ai Yazawa

#20. The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

Ai Weiwei

#21. Just don't keep me in the dark about things.
Otherwise, why am I with you?

Ai Yazawa

#22. Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.

Ai Yazawa

#23. I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Ai Weiwei

#24. Maybe I'm just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.

Ai Yazawa

#25. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes,

Elon Musk

#26. I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

Ai Weiwei

#27. I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

Ai Yazawa

#28. It's been a year and nine month since we broke up. It's almost the second spring since then. When I turn 20 in March, I'm going to buy myself a much deserved present. A one way ticket to Tokyo. As for luggage, all I need is my guitar and my smokes. - Nana

Ai Yazawa

#29. After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.

Melissa Breen

#30. The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Bill Joy

#31. Yesterday I lost not only a competitor, friend but most importantly a brother. Andy Irons you will be in my heart for eternity! R.I.P AI

Mick Fanning

#32. 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

#33. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I was really happy. I kept talking about myself, and didn't hear anything about Nana. But now that I know you better; I know you wouldn't say anything.

Ai Yazawa

#34. Don't just give up, Hachiko.
Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time.
If you keep getting up, you win.

Ai Yazawa

#35. If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her?
Humans are full of contradictions.

Ai Yazawa

#36. We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us ... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again ...

Ai Yazawa

#37. Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today's happiness I wouldn't worry about tomorrow.

Ai Yazawa

#38. Even now, sometimes on street corners ... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne ... so you can sleep, even alone ...

Ai Yazawa

#39. Whatever Yasu loves, I love too.
That's the secret of love.

Ai Yazawa

#40. Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Ai Weiwei

#41. Photographs are facts, but not necessarily true ... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

Ai Weiwei

#42. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett

#43. His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her ... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him

Ai Yazawa

#44. In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

Bryan Appleyard

#45. I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

Satya Nadella

#46. If you can't stop feeling guilty about Nana support Nana's dreams and wish her success.

Ai Yazawa

#47. I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything ... so I guess I seem indifferent in that way.
Yasu

Ai Yazawa

#48. New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

Ai Weiwei

#49. If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need.

Ai Weiwei

#50. The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

W. Somerset Maugham

#51. I have to get back to the hotel. But I don't know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn't notice where we were going. Nut I came to this point. without realising my attitude and actions. It's like I am slowing falling into a valley. I wonder where I'm standing now.

Ai Yazawa

#52. At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.

Ai Yazawa

#53. I loved New York - every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong - visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

Ai Weiwei

#54. People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Lou Reed

#55. In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

Ai Weiwei

#56. My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

Ai Weiwei

#57. Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted - a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.

Neal Asher

#58. I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

Ai Weiwei

#59. (Mutters under his breath) Smartass AI. (Louder) Well, we're not dead yet, so it could be worse. I'll let you know if we blow up. (Under breath) Let's see how far we can push before we really do break something critical.

Rolf Nelson

#60. Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.

Larry Page

#61. AI has been solved.

Arthur T. Murray

#62. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.' Case

William Gibson

#63. Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud ... But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well..but she never realized how much pain it brought her ... -Nana Komatsu

Ai Yazawa

#64. In the world of art, all things are possible.
George from Paradise Kiss

Ai Yazawa

#65. Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

Ai Weiwei

#66. We'll go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue."

'Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.'

He squeezed her hand. "Alex?"

"I'm ready, too.

G.S. Jennsen

#67. There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.

Evan Osnos

#68. People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone

Ai Yazawa

#69. Until now, I fell in love multiple times, and every time I got hurt, I fled, but from now on, I will continue to only think about takumi.

Ai Yazawa

#70. The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#71. The Internet changes the structure of society all the time - this massiveness made of individuals.

Ai Weiwei

#72. I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

Ai Weiwei

#73. I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Phyllis Diller

#74. Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight ... and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai

Gosho Aoyama

#75. I don't care if I'm loved back, I still want to love someone.Someone, from the bottom of my heart ... Straightforward, unwavering ... It seems like such a simple thing, so then why ... Must it be so incredibly hard?

Ai Yazawa

#76. I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

Ai Weiwei

#77. Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called 'pigheadedness'.

Neal Asher

#78. To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

Ai Yazawa

#79. Given that self-improving strong AI cannot be recalled, Yudkowsky points out that we need to "get it right the first time," and that its initial design must have "zero nonrecoverable errors."45

Ray Kurzweil

#80. Driving someone into a corner is the equivalent of driving yourself into a corner, so i will die in battle someday.

Ai Yazawa

#81. It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?

Because here was where desperation had become hope. Where helplessness had become purpose.

G.S. Jennsen

#82. I wasn't really able to love someone but I couldn't help but want to be loved.

Ai Yazawa

#83. Please leave me something ... even one memory would be enough.

Ai Yazawa

#84. The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.

Ai Yazawa

#85. A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.

Ai Yazawa

#86. When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

Ai Weiwei

#87. His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. "Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de," he whispered.
She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.

Cassandra Clare

#88. Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Ai Weiwei

#89. [With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

Tim Berners-Lee

#90. I always want to design a frame that's open to everyone. I don't see art as a secret code.

Ai Weiwei

#91. I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

Ai Yazawa

#92. If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg

#93. At this very moment, I am suffering - as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Emil Cioran

#94. Somehow, it seems like in the end, I was the only person left behind, all alone.

Ai Yazawa

#95. Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

Ai Weiwei

#96. Laugh at love and love will make you cry.

Ai Yazawa

#97. The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

Ai Weiwei

#98. I wouldn't say I've become more radical: I was born radical.

Ai Weiwei

#99. People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world.

Pedro Domingos

#100. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.

If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.

G.S. Jennsen