"The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination."

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Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

David Berlinski

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“It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.”
“I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.”
“I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.”
“We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.”
“It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.”
“The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.”

Source : "Ebola Epidemic 'Out of Control'", abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2014.
“If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified.”

Source : "The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 23, 2010.
“At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.”

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