Franich Law Quotes & Sayings

Although Artificial Intelligence has been successfully developed several thousand times over the course of known history, each time it was abandoned almost immediately, because it was utter crap. Tools are useful precisely because they are not intelligent. A toaster is useful because it makes toast every time it is asked to. When you develop a toaster that questions its own existence and isn't in the mood to make toast this morning, all you have created is a less-useful toaster. — Aaron Lee Yeager

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.' — Kim Edwards

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. — Deepak Chopra

I think I've heard this story before. He died alone?"
"Everyone dies alone. — Marisha Pessl

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too. — Tony Judt

Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. — Peter S. Beagle

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too. — Leslie Jamison

By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false. — Elizabeth Gaskell

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing. — Edward Young

Yeah I'm in that Tonka color of Willy Wonka — Nicki Minaj

I must run away, I must escape this very day or I shall go out of my mind. — Anton Chekhov

For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines. — Pete Townshend

For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. — Walter J. Phillips