"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."

-- Joseph Weizenbaum

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“I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.”

Source : Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.231, Simon and Schuster
“England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life”
“A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.”
“Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.”
“Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.”

Source : Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Jeanne Behrend (2006). “Notes of a Pianist”, p.120, Princeton University Press
“I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.”
“Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention,”
“It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.”

Source : Dartmouth Convocation on The Great Issues of Conscience in Modern Medicine (1960)

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