Major Kira Quotes & Sayings

Darwin's "strange inversion of reasoning" and Turing's equally revolutionary inversion were aspects of a single discovery: competence without comprehension. Comprehension, far from being a Godlike talent from which all design must flow, is an emergent effect of systems of uncomprehending competence: natural selection on the one hand, and mindless computation on the other. These twin ideas have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but they still provoke dismay and disbelief in some quarters, which I have tried to dispel in this chapter. Creationists are not going to find commented code in the inner workings of organisms, and Cartesians are not going to find an immaterial res cogitans "where all the understanding happens". — Daniel C. Dennett

I was many things. I was submissive. I was masochistic. I was trusting. I was a sexual slave. But obedient? Not as much. — C.D. Reiss

Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on another burdens which it is not asked to share, and impels the State into vast schemes of extravagance, under the belief that the whole costs will be thrown upon others. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. — Peter Davison

Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor. — Timothy M. Houston

she was beginning to emerge from the initial sex-induced coma created by him through — Margaret Atwood

There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something. — Edmund De Waal

I love you, cold, unfeeling robot arm! — Invader

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading. — Germaine Greer

I love language as I love life itself! — Jacques Derrida

Three stones for the faces of the mother, four bones ... for whatever reason the charlatans came up with that I can't be bothered to remember. — Sarah J. Maas

I was a superhero fan in the '90s, so I'm definitely familiar with John Romita, Jr. In fact, when I was in high school, I would go to local conventions and line up and get his signature. — Gene Luen Yang

At age thirty-six, with a bad case of acid reflux, chronic cynicism, and acute burnout, Charlie Crawford had packed up his Upper West Side apartment and headed down to the Sunshine State. He — Tom Turner