"As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Geoffrey Hinton

#Silly Quotes #Technology Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.”

Source : Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.79, Bywater Books
“To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.”

Source : Roger Kahn (2013). “The Boys of Summer”, p.17, Aurum Press Limited
“I?m 57 years old and there are adventures out there for me.”
“Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.”
“There were a lot of people on the other side of the field saying, 'Maybe he's doing this, not doing that.' It's good to bounce back the year after and put up some good numbers, so they know that you're a guy who works.”
“I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.”
“One of the problems with a lot of "confessional" writing is that it starts and stops with the confessional and doesn't really tie the "I" into a "we" at all. I'm still surprised at how mad critics get at that kind of confessional writing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The historian records, but the novelist creates.”

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