"The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today."

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Source : J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

J. C. R. Licklider

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Data Quotes

“These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
“Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.”
“My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.”
“Six happy years together Such a perfect matching You're entering the 7 year itch zone This is no time for scratching”
“The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. Heâ€™s about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? Thereâ€™d be riots in the streets about the people weâ€™re killing. And yet because itâ€™s Obama, and heâ€™s better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.”
“... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.”
“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.”
“Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.”

Source : "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1889.

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