Brian Christian Quotes
Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.

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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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I grew up in the church.
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I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.
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Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.
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If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
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In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
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There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.
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All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.
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Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this isn't so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm.
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I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them.
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Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.