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" Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species. "
Dan Brown
Ethics
Science
Powerful
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" Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that. "
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Gospel
Important
Share
" Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. "
Dan Brown
Faith
Fall
Life
" I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was. "
Dan Brown
Trying
Emulate
Faulkner
" I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends. "
Dan Brown
Dog
Think
Mountains
" Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong. "
Dan Brown
Hero
You
Love
" Our religions are much more similar than they are different. "
Dan Brown
More
Than
Religions
" I like mac and cheese. "
Dan Brown
Cheese
Mac
Like
" I love the gray area between right and wrong. "
Dan Brown
Right
Gray Area
Love
" There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years. "
Dan Brown
Know
People
Past
" It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.' "
Dan Brown
Weakness
Say
Look
" I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning. "
Dan Brown
Feel
Better
Learning
" Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future. "
Dan Brown
Consider
Future
Issues
" I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping. "
Dan Brown
Lying
I Am
Coffee
" Technology is changing the way we interact as humans. "
Dan Brown
Humans
Way
Technology
" I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal. "
Dan Brown
Appreciation
Acceptance
Just
" The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture. "
Dan Brown
Culture
Powerful
Look
" There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window. "
Dan Brown
Stress
Once
Car
" It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple. "
Dan Brown
Place
Simple
Me
" I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters. "
Dan Brown
Opening
Always
Pleasure
" I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you. "
Dan Brown
You
People
Love
" If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. "
Dan Brown
People
You
Hell
" For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law. "
Dan Brown
Technology
Good
October
" I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing. "
Dan Brown
Seeing
Office
Power
" I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables. "
Dan Brown
Taste
Ice Cream
Trying