Geoffrey Hinton Quotes
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I love to smile.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.
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For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
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I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.
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A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power.
