"Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program."

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Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.257, Hachette UK

Vernor Vinge

#Language Quotes #Natural Quotes #Program Quotes

“Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!”
“Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.”

Source : Michael Kurland (2002). “The Unicorn Girl”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC
“The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.”

Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins
“Five years later I still wake up screaming forï»¿ him to run”
“Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine”
“The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.”
“In some ways, it's easier to go from short form to long form than vice versa. I used to make 30 second 'movies,' and I think if I only did long form I would find it difficult to adjust to that short a length. 'I gotta say something in 30 seconds. Forget about it!' There have been directors who have done commercials over the years, but they seem to be the exception.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.”

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