“If I can’t explain it, I don’t understand it”.
Richard Feynman
Category Archives: Quotes
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”Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea”
Iris Murdoch
As every author knows only too well. Sigh.
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“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.”
Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm1, (2015)
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“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a Russian”
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“For all the ways this technology brings us together, the monetization and manipulation of information is swiftly tearing us apart.”
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, writing in today’s Washington Post.
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”Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
H.L. Mencken
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“If classical mechanics is George Eliot, quantum mechanics is Kafka.”
Rifka Galchen, in her New Yorker profile of David Deutsch.
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“Here’s what I have learned, if you retire to spend more time with your family, check with your family first.”
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“More than two years ago, soon after Donald Trump entered the presidential race, I noted online that no one like him—with no political, military, judicial, or public-service experience, with no known expertise on policy matters, with a trail of financial and personal complications—had ever before become president. Therefore, I said, it wasn’t going to happen this time. Quite obviously that was wrong. Penitent and determined to learn from my errors, I’ve avoided any predictions involving Trump and his circles ever since.”