The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and… — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our… — Melvin Laird Copy Share Image
Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it… — Jesse Kellerman Copy Share Image
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The problem is not in the food... The problem lies in the mind. It lies in our lack of awareness of the… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
How thankful we ought to be ... how thankful we are, for a prophet to counsel us in words of divine wisdom… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It doesn't take billions of dollars or complex medical technologies, and there doesn't have to be a dramatic upending to the current… — James Redford Copy Share Image
We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being.… — Peter Corning Copy Share Image
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
For all of us, it's very hard to think about money, and because of that, we need help. In the same way… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
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