Pseudo famous quotes

Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?
-- Alfred Kazin

#Literature #Pseudo #Spirit

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Pseudo #Hollywood #Looking Good

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?
-- Charles Fort

#Thinking #What If #Pseudo

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.
-- Eric S. Raymond

#Secret #Pseudo #Programming

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
-- Hannah Arendt

#Numbers #Knowing #Pseudo

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
-- James Mark Baldwin

#Psychology #Pseudo #Periods

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.
-- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#Religious #Pseudo #Advocating

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Order #Pseudo #Embrace

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.
-- Raymond Geuss

#Ideas #Pseudo #Problem

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
-- Slavoj Žižek

#Goes On #Today #Pseudo

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
-- David Deming

#Long #Pseudo #Global Warming

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.
-- Marlene van Niekerk

#Substance #Pseudo #States

One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.
-- Alva Noe

#Smart #Machines #Pseudo