Alan Turing Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Good design should be honest.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I'm more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.
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You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
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I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.
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The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
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It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
