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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, 10 September 3200 source ↗

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Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
In retrospect, I certainly think it would have been much better from a public relations viewpoint not to have played the games, because I did respect President Kennedy a great deal.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 678067200 source ↗
Andrew Young Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
I had followed the experts and put the money I had in television.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 835920000 source ↗
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, 1228089600 source ↗
Toni Morrison Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993
I always thought I was able and competent all the while I was rearing them.
Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, 10 September 0800 source ↗

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