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'm one of those pesky Brits.
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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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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.
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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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During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.
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Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.
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When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
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I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.
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America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.
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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.
