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- The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.
- David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G. Wells
- I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.
- Roger King
- Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
- Noah Webster
- Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
- U Thant
- Human science is an uncertain guess.
- Edward G. Prior
- As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
- A. J. Toynbee
- Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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