--- title: "1 Game Beginning Quotes By Brian Christian" description: "1 Game Beginning quotes by Brian Christian. Plus more from Brian Christian and more Game Beginning sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/brian-christian-10142_books_grandmaster-games-are-said-to-begin-with_2806638.jpg" --- > [“Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could be the fifth, it could be the thirty-fifth. We think about a chess game as beginning with move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/grandmaster-games-are-said-to-begin-with-novelty-which-is-the-first/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/brian-christian-10142_books_grandmaster-games-are-said-to-begin-with_2806638.jpg) ## More by Brian Christian > [“Though all Christians start a wedding invitation by solemnly declaring their marriage is due to special Divine arrangement, I, as a philosopher, would like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/though-all-christians-start-a-wedding-invitation-by-solemnly/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“It’s fairly intuitive that never exploring is no way to live. But it’s also worth mentioning that never exploiting can be every bit as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/it-s-fairly-intuitive-that-never-exploring-is-no-way-to-live-but-it-s/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/forrest-gander-maybe-the-best-we-can-do-is-try-to-leave-ourselves/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“We asked Shoup if his research allows him to optimize his own commute, through the Los Angeles traffic to his office at UCLA. Does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/we-asked-shoup-if-his-research-allows-him-to-optimize-his-own-commute/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“look no further than Peter A. Lawrence’s developmental biology text The Making of a Fly, which in April 2011 was selling for $23,698,655.93 (plus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/look-no-further-than-peter-a-lawrence-s-developmental-biology-text/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“Though time management seems a problem as old as time itself, the science of scheduling began in the machine shops of the industrial revolution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/though-time-management-seems-a-problem-as-old-as-time-itself-the/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“the math tells us why: the unknown has a chance of being better”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/the-math-tells-us-why-the-unknown-has-a-chance-of-being-better/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/there-is-no-such-thing-as-absolute-certainty-but-there-is-assurance/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/pleasantries-are-low-entropy-biased-so-far-that-they-stop-being-an/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/what-a-familiarity-with-the-construction-of-turing-test-bots-had/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“We say “brain fart” when we should really say “cache miss.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/we-say-brain-fart-when-we-should-really-say-cache-miss/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“When our expectations are uncertain and the data are noisy, the best bet is to paint with a broad brush”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/when-our-expectations-are-uncertain-and-the-data-are-noisy-the-best/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“Computer scientists have been working on finding this balance for more than fifty years. They even have a name for it: the explore/exploit tradeoff.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/computer-scientists-have-been-working-on-finding-this-balance-for/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“We go through digital life, in the twenty-first century, with our guards up. All communication is a Turing test. All communication is suspect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/we-go-through-digital-life-in-the-twenty-first-century-with-our/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) > [“exploration is gathering information, and exploitation is using the information”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-christian/exploration-is-gathering-information-and-exploitation-is-using-the/) [Brian Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-christian/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/game-beginning/brian-christian/#itemlist", "name": "1 Game Beginning Quotes By Brian Christian", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could be the fifth, it could be the thirty-fifth. 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