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What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?
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Geoffrey Hinton

Computer scientist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 2024

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I always thought superintelligence was a long way off and we could worry about it later, and the problem for now is just to make these more intelligent. I wish I'd thought sooner about what was going to happen.

Adam Smith, Nobel Week in Stockholm, Nobel Prize Outreach, 6 December 2024 source ↗

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Freddie Hubbard Jazz trumpeter and composer
I always felt like I could blow it and nothing would never happen until this happened.
Recorded Tony Cox, NPR News & Notes, 1 December 2008 source ↗
Yaa Gyasi Novelist
I don't think I really understood that you could choose writing as a profession for many years later. It wasn't really until I was 17, when I read Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and saw, 'Oh, someone like me, a black woman, can do this ...
Recorded Time, Time, 30 June 2016 source ↗
Stephen Sondheim Composer and lyricist for the musical theatre
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Recorded N/A, N/A, N/A source ↗
Tadao Ando Architect; Pritzker Prize laureate, 1995
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
Recorded Anonymous, Online Quote Compilation, AllGreatQuotes, 20 August 2026 source ↗

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