Stuart Sutherland famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.
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The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.
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To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
-- Stuart Sutherland
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I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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When one door opens, so does another one.
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She who means no mischief does it all.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
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