Category: Quotations

Patience

Apr 27, 2009

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Dr Wingnut

in Quotations

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.Isaac Newton
Resisting assimilation

Apr 26, 2009

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Dr Wingnut

in Quotations

There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered!Charles Swindoll
Character

Apr 25, 2009

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Dr Wingnut

in Quotations

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self respect springs.Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”
Sheep

Apr 24, 2009

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Dr Wingnut

in Quotations

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.Anatole France
Gratitude

Apr 23, 2009

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Dr Wingnut

in Quotations

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.Aesop
Artificial Intelligence

Apr 22, 2009

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Dr Wingnut

in Computer, Quotations

Machine intelligence and human intelligence are not comparable (Computer, Nov. 2003, pp. 120, 118-119). Machine intelligence is a computational phenomenon, human intelligence a social one. Computing professionals do great social harm when they portray their machinery as anything but tools to amplify human accomplishment and originality.Neville Homes, Computer, March 2009, page 99
Striving

Apr 21, 2009

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Dr Wingnut

in Quotations

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.Louis L’Amour