"In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised."

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Source : Daniel Crevier (1993). “AI: the tumultuous history of the search for artificial intelligence”, Basic Books (AZ)

Daniel Crevier

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“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
“The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.”
“Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.”
“The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.”
“If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.”

Source : "Hudibras" by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (Part 1, Canto 1), 1859.
“Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

Source : "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.
“Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimesâ€¦I question the rationality of my actions. And Iâ€™m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... itâ€™ll be just like coming home.”
“Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.”

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