"The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim."

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Source : Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

Edsger Dijkstra

#Technology Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Swim Quotes

“When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.”
“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
“Reader-users read differently than their forebears-they read Twitter to find links to long articles that will interest them; they switch between phone calls and the Kindle app. And yes, they watch video, play games, and listen to music. But language still knits it all together, and words have more work to do than they ever did before.”
“From sitting down with West Timorese, to spending endless hours with the Afghan Taliban; to have sat with Al Qaeda after 9/11 I've always found myself crossing into the unknown - to the darker recesses.”
“We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.”
“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.”
“How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world Iâ€™m certain I love?”

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