"OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?"

-- Eugene Wigner

#Computer Quotes #Understood Quotes

“People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.”

Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.86, Random House
“Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.”
“... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.”
“Love is the only medicine I believe in.”
“There were more people against going into Iraq than there were going into the Falklands... but the shame I carry as a British resident, was that it was a war handled in the media as if it were a World Cup summer. Like when England go into the World Cup, there are Union Jacks on the papers, and you can look at headlines from the time and it sounded just like that. Ultimately, I was privy to footage from ITN archives - that wasn't shown on television - of the people we were fighting, and it was shameful. It was bullying. It was really horrible. How could we have been proud of winning that?”
“If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.”

Source : Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press
“I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.”

Source : Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)
“Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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