Gen Pershing Quotes & Sayings

Purpose gives rise to discipline, restraint, and self-control, which are crucial, fundamental tools for success in the journey of life. — Pedro Okoro

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang — Lisa See

Finally, our new brain needs a purpose. A purpose is expressed as a series of goals. In the case of our biological brains, our goals are established by the pleasure and fear centers that we have inherited from the old brain. These primitive drives were initially set by biological evolution to foster the survival of species, but the neocortex has enabled us to sublimate them. Watson's goal was to respond to Jeopardy! queries. Another simply stated goal could be to pass the Turing test. To do so, a digital brain would need a human narrative of its own fictional story so that it can pretend to be a biological human. It would also have to dumb itself down considerably, for any system that displayed the knowledge of, say, Watson would be quickly unmasked as nonbiological. — Ray Kurzweil

I didn't read this book
I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans. — William McKeen

What a disgrace! They were afraid...ashamed...they chose to conceal it...they buried the roots of a Great Civilization...they lacked the courage to go further...and turned their backs on what science had to offer them...and tried to seal away forever the hole they had torn open with their own hands. — Katsuhiro Otomo

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate. — Ruth Ozeki

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it. — Hans Blix

The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith. — Robert G. Ingersoll

We'll probably never save our souls - but hell, at least we'll get our hair sorted. — Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

She was beautiful. In fact she was possibly the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was tall, with dark black hair, light skin, and big brown eyes. Her face was beautiful, not fake beautiful like a model or an actress, because she was obviously a real person, but rather Helen of Troy, launch-a-thousand-ships kind of good-looking. — Larry Correia

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. — Tennessee Williams

I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really. — Bill Bruford