Be it religion, love under all its forms, literature, or art, there is not a single spiritual force that does not become an object of commercial exploitation.
-- Etienne Gilson
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
-- Linus Torvalds
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
-- Irwin Corey
When you find rules/laws/procedures that don't make sense look for politics and privilege!
-- Richard Rathe
Dystopia is when robots take half of your jobs; Utopia is when robots take half of your job.
-- Noah Smith (@noahpinion)
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Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
-- William Strunk Jr.
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Try to learn the features of a disease or injury as precisely as you know the the features, the gait, the tricks of manner of your most intimate friend.
-- James Syme (1850)
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
-- George Santayana
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How many institutions operate at this level of maturity? How many pay lip service to a politically correct "mission" (education, patient care, research) when they really pursue (and reward) something quite different (grant productivity and market share)? Small wonder, indeed, that many sense the futility of gathering data to support decisions that the institution has no will to undertake. Why put band-aids on cancer? Because it looks like you're trying, and hides the ugliness of disease.
-- Kevin M. Baskin, MD (University of Iowa)
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The past does not exist except as a threadbare fragment in the weaker minds of the many.
-- Kurt Godel
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When I hear someone (seventy-plus or twenty-something) utter "my generation," I know I am in the vicinity of a light mind.
-- Cynthia Ozick
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Nothing is more estimable than a physician who -- having studied nature from his youth -- knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
-- Voltaire
Orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is your doxy.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
-- George Herbert
Because you cannot see Him, God is everywhere.
-- Yasunari Kawabata
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
-- Cassius Longinus
Correct me as a friend, and I as a friend will requite with kindness.
-- Linnaeus
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
-- Aldous Huxley
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