"Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map."

-- Martin Rees

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“Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.”
“Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.”
“Memphis are a big part of who I am, but it's still just a part”
“The problem with natural language processing and the thing that really holds the technology back, is that when it crashes and burns, it's horrific. I think we would be in a position to really take a serious look at it, once two things happen. The interesting thing about a dialogue-choice system is that we've devoted so much into all kinds of other systems for processing, and dialogue choices use zero processing. So suddenly, if you want to have a great natural language processor, you need to dial down your graphics to make it work.”

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“Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.”

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“We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?”
“In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.”

Source : "The Bridges of Madison County". Book by Robert James Waller, 1992.
“That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.”

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