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" You don’t fix the problem until you define it. " - John W. Snow

" I used to feel that if I say something’s wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong – that’s good enough. " - Etgar Keret

" One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety. " - Mo Yan

" I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans – but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was? " - Jesmyn Ward

" I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on ‘Mastermind’. " - Jasper Carrott

" Technologies like Ayasdi’s exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front. " - Gurjeet Singh

" What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others. " - Georg C. Lichtenberg

" Only by developing a deeper understanding of AI systems as they act in the world can we ensure that this new infrastructure never turns toxic. " - Kate Crawford

" Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it. " - Agatha Christie

" Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven’t gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study. " - Karin Slaughter