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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Speaker: Rich CookPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us?
Speaker: Lois McMaster BujoldPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
Speaker: G. H. HardyPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Speaker: Lisa AltherPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
Speaker: Robert WilenskyPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
Speaker: Samuel JohnsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Speaker: Dan RatherPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
Speaker: John CagePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Speaker: Virgil ThompsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
Speaker: Bill NyePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!’ (I found it!) but 'That’s funny …’
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Speaker: Samuel JohnsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Speaker: Phillips BrooksPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!