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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Can machines have souls? You ask me that and I ask you if souls can learn. If they can't -- then of what importance is this concept? Sterile and empty and unchangeable for eternity. How much more preferable it is to understand that we create ourselves. Slowly and painfully, shaped basically by our genes, modified steadily by everything we see and hear and attempt to understand. That is the reality and that is how we function, learn and develop.: Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky, The Turing Option
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left. Excited a few men in the meantime.: Patrick Macnee, reminiscing on Diana Rigg's involvement in "The Avengers" (interview, Washington Post, Sept. 6, 1987)
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.: Graham Greene, _The Heart of the Matter_
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Life? Don't talk to me about life!: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), (Marvin the Paranoid Android) The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

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