"A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output."

-- Michael Kirby

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“This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You.”
“Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.”
“And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (1992). “Poems of Jerusalem ; And, Love Poems: A Bilingual Edition”
“If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.”
“Everyoneâ€”whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgenderâ€”should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”
“We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.”
“we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.”

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