"The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'"

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Source : Charles Stross (2011). “Rule 34”, p.140, Penguin

Charles Stross

#Thinking Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Swim Quotes

“Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.”

Source : "Learning Deficits" by Robert L. Borosage, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.
“We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.”
“The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.”
“But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.”
“A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.”
“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
“Get your egos off the battlefield.”
“Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.”

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