"If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't."

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Source : Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen (2000). “The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World”, p.13, Penguin UK

Ian Stewart

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“We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.”
“Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Scholastic UK
“This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.”
“I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.”

Source : Message read at Terlincthun Cemetery, Boulogne, 13 May 1922, in 'The Times' 15 May 1922
“The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.”
“If now, after the collapse, should any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler have the insolence to claim they were merely harmless onlookers, let them feel the scourge of avenging mankind .... Whoever cries about having lost the Nazi system or wants to resurrect National Socialism is to be treated as a lunatic.”
“The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.”
“On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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