"If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool."

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Believe Quotes #Iron Quotes #Desire Quotes

“People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed”

Source : Martina Cole (2008). “Close”, p.36, Hachette UK
“Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great”
“Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.”
“I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth”
“If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.”

Source : "Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about" by Tom Chatfield, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2014.
“The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.”

Source : Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”
“We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan”

Source : "Why Mazar-e Sharif matters" by Ben Wedeman, David Grange, www.cnn.com. November 10, 2001.
“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”

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