Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Artificial Intelligence

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    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

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

  • Wonder

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    Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms.  No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech

  • Life

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    There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana

  • Beauty

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    When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty.  I think only how to solve the problem.  But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.R. Buckminster Fuller

  • Improvement

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    The aim of life is self-development.  To realize one’s nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.Oscar Wilde

  • Listening

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    With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.Catherine de Hueck