Pg 104 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 can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe. — Billy Graham

How could it be winter without snow?I appreciated every season, but winter was my favorite.I loved when it was time to pull out my thick sweaters.I loved the smell of a wood fire.I loved skiing and snow boarding and sledding, when i could find the time-although time was in a short supply when school was in session.I even enjoyed the cold, wintry weather, it was great for snuggling. — Rachel Hawthorne

My mom was pretty dead on when she named me Fable, wasn't she? I don't feel real to anyone. — Monica Murphy

It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed. — Farrah Fawcett

So perhaps there are no phantom pains after all; perhaps all pain is real; perhaps each long-ago blow lives on into eternity in some different permutation and shape; perhaps the body is this hypersensitive, revengeful entity, a ledger book, a warehouse of remembered slights and cruelties. — Thrity Umrigar

No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it. — Barton Gellman

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow. — Adam Smith

The opportunities that can be envisioned then created are endless. — Steven Redhead

Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me - I never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends. — Sol Luckman

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. — J.R.R. Tolkien

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege — Noam Chomsky

The discourse of power is, of its nature, bombastic, pontifical, and domineering. — David Bentley Hart

When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure. — Jackie Chan

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. — Eminem

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others. — William John Wills