Alan Turing Quotes
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
-
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
-
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
-
You must prune dead or dying wood.
-
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
-
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
-
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
-
Proust is a huge author for me.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
-
The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
-
Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
-
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
-
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
-
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
-
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
-
I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
-
When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
-
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
-
It was a queer, disturbing instant of recognition. We all create monsters in our minds. The only important difference may be which of us let our monsters become real.
-
I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
-
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
-
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
