Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
AI WEIWEIIn my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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I never regret anything.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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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.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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