P. J. Plauger Quotes

The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

P. J. Plauger

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• My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

  

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• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  

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• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

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• It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

  

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• You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

  

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• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

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• I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

  

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• There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.

  

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• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

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• If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

  

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• There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

  

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• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

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• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

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• When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

  

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• Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

  

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• We need to eliminate hate speech. We need to do our part to really engineer kindness on our digital platforms.

  

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• I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

  

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• Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

  

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• If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  

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• I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

  

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• The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Stupid
  • Two
  • Digital