“Someday a computer will give the wrong answer to spare someone’s feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.” – Robert Breault.
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“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”
From Revenge of the Analog, by David Sax
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“There is not enough Africa in computers” – Brian Eno.
Weekly quote fix
“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” – Douglas Adams.
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“Past, and to come, seems best; things present, worst.”
William Shakespeare.
Predictions about the Future
“Every prediction, consciously or unconsciously, is a critique of both present and past” (Source: me having a rare moment of clarity)
Image: futuristic city wallpapers
Exams Don’t Predict Anything
Commenting in the New York Times last year, Laszlo Bock, then Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, said that: “For every job, the No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not IQ. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly. It’s the ability to pull together disparate bits of information.Grade Point Averages are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.”
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I think ergo Lego
“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
Michael Crichton, Writer.
(I’m not totally sure about this, but it did make me think).
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We are condemed to live in the present. We have neither the attention to remember the past nor the capacity to imagine the future.
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