Connectionist Learning Quotes & Sayings

To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease. — Wyndham Lewis

The point is that if you think you can pinpoint the cause, then you can fool yourself into thinking you can avert the cause. It's deeply egotistical. It's life played as a grand insurance policy. Our myth-making around cancer stems from the same impulse. Because we don't know exactly why most of it happens, we weave a makeshift wisdom around it, a false prophet, which seeps into the common story and feeds our hunger to understand why. The guilt is a byproduct, a way to assign blame and seek absolution. It's a lesser evil than the forces of randomness. And it gives us the illusion of control. — Alanna Mitchell

I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person. — Susan Isaacs

They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding ... old. — Cheryl James

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? — Maria Montessori

Of course, the books you read early, before 20, and love passionately, they get to you. Even if later on you can't read them again. You were shaped by certain books. All of us that read a lot, we're partly book-manufactured. It's really hard to talk about the influence of such books on you because it goes so deep. It's like, what was your father's influence on you, what was your mother's influence. How can you say? You grew up with it. So, you will find I dodge all questions about favorite books and so on. What does it matter what I like? — Ursula K. Le Guin

Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born. — Emil M. Cioran

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting. — David Salle

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone. — Bob Dylan

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different. — Andrew Young

I am who I am and that's who I am — Nikolai Gogol

It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment? — John Calvin