"I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Geoffrey Hinton

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Say Anything Quotes

“We have to convince people that the handouts â€“ just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, thatâ€™s not a life. Thatâ€™s not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation,”
“The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.”
“One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.”

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“When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.”
“Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.”
“My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.”
“Race prejudice is the devil unchained.”

Source : Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.143, Xist Publishing
“The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.”

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