"The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Silly Quotes #Effort Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.”
“If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.”

Source : "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
“All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.”

Source : Nnedi Okorafor (2011). “Akata Witch”, p.57, Penguin
“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.”
“I am not accustomed to protocol.”
“A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.”
“If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.”
“Gay people, we die in all the movies, like we almost always die in the movie, because that's what you can do to us that's dramatic. We can't make a baby.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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