"Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart."

-- Marvin Minsky

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“With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.”
“He picked up the wrench and broke the guyâ€™s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebodyâ€™s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemyâ€™s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctorâ€™s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.”
“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.”
“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”
“Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.”

Source : Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States. Executive Office of the President (1995). “Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5-6, 1995, China”
“All my children inherited perfect pitch.”
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

Source : Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
“But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.”

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