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Grace Hopper:

A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

Given the current hoopla over “AI,” methinks this quite a timely statement.

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Chris Adami:

We found evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn’t evolutionarily sustainable.

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Tom Clancy:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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Livy:

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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Billy Ray:

The opposite of chaos politically is not order. The opposite of chaos is community.

By the way, the interview from which that quotation is taken is worth a listen. Billy Ray shares some most thoughtful–er–thoughts.

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Craig McLacklan, in the voice of Dr. Blake, and LYke Ryan, in the voice of Xavier McBride:

McBride: Do you believe in God, Doctor?

Blake: I used to believe in a just and merciful God.

McBride: And now?

Blake: And now I’m not so sure.

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Hypatia:

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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Johnny Carson:

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

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Stephen Jay Gould:

I’m a profound anti-romantic. Romanticism is dangerous. Romanticism untrammeled by intellect gives rise to fascism after all.

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Sophocles:

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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Thomas Ligotti:

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

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Malcolm Muggeridge:

If you say to me that men are so made that the strongest kicks the weakest in the teeth and then the strongest survive, and go on to argue that if you apply this to economics you will get a happy society, you have done an irreparable wrong as we know, as we have seen.

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E. M. Forster:

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

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Bertrand Russell:

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

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Dan Rather:

To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.

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Noam Chomsky:

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

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Ingrid Bergman, in the voice of Stephanie Dickinson:

Whenever people hurt your feelings, they’ve always done it for your own good.

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Diogenes:

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

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Jack Paar:

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

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John Locke:

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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