"Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

#Real Quotes #Steps Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.”
“The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.”
“I'm obsessed with efficiency. And there are some tasks I need to just leave alone. And there are others - like an evening with one of my daughters or my wife - where I need to toss efficiency aside and simply be in the moment.”
“In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.”
“Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.”
“There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.”
“If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldnâ€™t be in a worse state than it is now !”
“Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.”

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