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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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It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
— Jeremy Bentham
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"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have…
— Unknown Author
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Instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about burning him at the STILTS It probably lasts longer, plus it moves…
— Jack Handey
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It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!
— Aimee Mullins
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Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...
— Peter S. Beagle
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Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend,…
— Dylan Thomas
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Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very…
— John L. Parker Jr.
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What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal…
— Jean Paul
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
— Walter Savage Landor
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