June 2012
17 posts
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“ “Something has a “meaning” only when it has a few; if we...”
– Marvin Minsky, American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AI laboratory, Music, Mind, and Meaning, Computer Music Journal, Fall 1981, Vol. 5, Number 3
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“ “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.” ”
– Vladimir Nabokov, a multilingual Russian novelist, poet and short story writer (1899-1977), cited in Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, 2003. Illustration
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“ “This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd....”
– Steven Johnson, American popular science author and media theorist, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Riverhead Hardcover, 2010.
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“ “When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to...”
– Lisa Randall, American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions, Harper Perennial, 2005, Introduction
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“What Darwin’s theory of evolution teaches us about Alan Turing and...”
– Daniel C. Dennett, American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist, professor and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, ‘A Perfect and Beautiful Machine’: What Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Reveals About Artificial Intelligence, The Atlantic, June...
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“ “We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. The...”
– Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (1897-1941), Science and Linguistics, first published in 1940 in MIT Technology Review
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“ “The crucial point is that everything that we see in the right half of...”
– Aatish Bhatia, Ph.D. at Rutgers University, ☞ The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains, June 11, 2012.
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“ “The world was so new that many things still lacked names, and to mention...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Harper & Row, 1970.
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“ “There is at least one philosophical problem in which all thinking men...”
– Karl Popper, Austro-British philosopher and professor at the London School of Economics (1902-1994), The World of Parmenides: Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment, Routledge, 2012, p. 8.
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“ “I hate a Roman named Status Quo!” he said to me. “Stuff your eyes...”
– Ray Bradbury, American writer (1920-2012), Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books, 1953.
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“ “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while....”
– Ray Bradbury, American writer (1920-2012), Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books, 1953.
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“ “…It is the lovers pulling down empty structures.
They wait and...”
– Amiri Baraka, American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism, Like Rousseau, Poetry, December 1964.
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“ “In any case a metaphor does not have to be new: in fact the best ones...”
– Ange Mlinko and Iain McGilchrist, This Is Your Brain On Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Oct 2010.
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“ “I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are...”
– Quentin Crisp, English writer (1908-1999), The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Harper Perennial, 2007.
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“ “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,”...”
– Ernest Hemingway, American author and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (1899-1961), The Sun Also Rises, Simon and Schuster, 1926.
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“ “The naive view of reality is not compatible with modern physics. To deal...”
– Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author and Leonard Mlodinow, physicist and author, The Grand Design, Bantam Books, New York, 2010.
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“ “I’ve long suspected, based on observations of myself as well as...”
– Nicholas Carr, American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture, A little more signal, a lot more noise, Rough Type, May 30, 2012. 