"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."

-- John Boyd Orr

#Country Quotes #Communication Quotes #Years Quotes

“You need strategies that help rule things out. That's the opposite of saying, "This is what my gut is telling me; let me gather information to confirm it."”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains - may change human beings themselves.”
“I feel that Im not losing the game for our team. Im trying to give us the best opportunity to win the football game. I did everything I could to lose the Jets game but we won. And the Patriots game, I didnt play well. I think that this year, I just come out and play smart football. I got some good advice the other day (from CBS Sports Dan Dierdorf): Every drive that ends in a kick is a good drive.”
“Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.”
“I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.”
“There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.”

Source : John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821). “Select discourses”, p.467
“At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way--and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.”

Source : "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Tony Hoare's lecture at the 1980 ACM Turing Award in Nashville, Tennessee; "Communications of the ACM", Volume 24, Issue 2, dl.acm.org. February 1981.
“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”

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