"You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that."

-- John von Neumann

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“We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.”
“Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.”

Source : "Stand-up comic - Interview". The Progressive Vol. 65 Nbr., July 7, 2001.
“It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.”

Source : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
“If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.”

Source : "Owen relies on honest approach to mean streets" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2006.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.”
“When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.”
“I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life”

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