"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

“I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.”

“Whatever nature gives us, we explore & we build on.”

“Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.”

Source : 'The Concept of Mind' (1949) introduction

“The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.”

“One day you'll love me, the way I love you. One day you'll think of me the way I think of you. One day you'll cry for me, the way I cry for you. One day you'll want me, but I won't want you.”

“Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn't room for both of them; and that's healthy.”

Source : "Nick Denton: how Gawker's blogging has evolved" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2010.

“Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).”

Source : George Johnson (2011). “Machinery of the Mind”, p.450, Crown