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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such…
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Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,…
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I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…
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Reductionism is merciless.
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for…
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One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John…
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The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
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Irrationality is the square root of all evil
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In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
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The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right…
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No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
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The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.
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I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to…
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All good ideas arrive by chance.
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Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned…
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Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.
— Rushworth Kidder
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility…
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If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm…
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I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I…
— Jack Handey
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Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
— Jeanne Gang
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Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas
— Kevin O'Leary
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