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.
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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.
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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.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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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.
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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.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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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.
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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.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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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.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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.
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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.
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
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He couldn't find anybody who would rent him a place to live, so he had to live in this woman's house.
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The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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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.
