Brian Christian Quotes

One of the implicit principles of computer science, as odd as it may sound, is that computation is bad: the underlying directive of any good algorithm is to minimize the labor of thought.

Brian Christian

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• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Help
  • Want

• While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Live
  • Feel
  • Broke

• When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Rights
  • States
  • Amendments

• I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

  

  Gabriele Munter
  • Girl
  • Drawing
  • Generations

• Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Work
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• Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People

• Every team has absentees. In this type of match we needed to try harder.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Team
  • Type
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• For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
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• Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Men
  • Country
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• My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

  

  Wilhelm Frick
  • People
  • Service
  • Fatherland

• In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

  

  William Prescott
  • Funny
  • inspirational
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• My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Ride
  • My Wife
  • Traffic

• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Better
  • Persons

• If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• One of the implicit principles of computer science, as odd as it may sound, is that computation is bad: the underlying directive of any good algorithm is to minimize the labor of thought.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Principles
  • Algorithm
  • Computer science