"IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is."

-- Vernor Vinge

“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”

Source : "Paul Merton interview: fears of a clown". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.
“Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.”
“Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories. It seems, indeed, a necessary weakness of our mind to be able to reach truth only across a multitude of errors and obstacles.”
“I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.”
“A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Dec 04, 2011
“The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.”
“Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.”
“Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.”

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