"A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they arenâ€™t ï¬‚exible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it."

-- Marvin Minsky

#Typewriters Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sound Quotes

“The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.”

Source : "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.
“Where the hell do you put the bayonet?”
“We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.”
“Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.”

Source : David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.229, Vintage
“Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.”

Source : Christian Metz (2015). “Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film”, p.11, Columbia University Press
“Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.”
“What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.”
“But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.”

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