Aroussia Quotes & Sayings

The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions. — Ray Kurzweil

So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead. — John Green

Shall we make a positive appointment for a particular day and hour?" inquired the count; "only let me warn you that I am proverbial for my punctilious exactitude in keeping my engagements. — Alexandre Dumas

A loss may be sometimes a gain. — Jane Austen

I never thought I'd sing or dance on national television. — Jane Krakowski

To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new. — Fennel Hudson

her flesh no longer existed in this world. — Haruki Murakami

I feel that my main responsibility as a teacher isn't to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions. — Max Tegmark

Luckily, I was in a unique position to conduct this research. — Shawn Achor

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself. — Ibn Khaldun

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny. — Morgan Freeman

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life. — George Andrew Olah

Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can't function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations. — Joseph Stiglitz

Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren't. You are pure at heart or you aren't. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break. — Richard Siken

Madness really is contagious, and friends are a blessing, especially when you're on your own. — Roberto Bolano