Smolensk Wows Quotes & Sayings

The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net. — Anatol Rapoport

You can gain knowledge from school but you can't get motivation, knowledge & education can't get you anywhere without motivation. — Beta Metani'Marashi

I suspect if we were as familiar with our bones as with our skin, we'd never bury dead but shrine them in their rooms, arranged as we might like to find them on a visit; and our enemies, if we could steal their bodies from the battle sites, would be museumed as they died, the steel still eloquent in their sides, their metal hats askew, the protective toes of their shoes unworn, and friend and enemy would be so wondrously historical that in a hundred years we'd find the jaws still hung for the same speech and all the parts we spent our life with titled as they always were - rib cage, collar, skull - still repetitious, still defiant, angel light, still worthy of memorial and affection. After all, what does it mean to say that when our cat has bitten through the shell and put confusion in the pulp, the life goes out of them? Alas for us, I want to cry, our bones are secret, showing last, so we must love what perishes: the muscles and the waters and the fats. — William H Gass

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment — Rudolf Steiner

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't. — Alan Rickman

Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland. — Marc Cohn

The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past. — Learned Hand

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another. — Franz Grillparzer

What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures, flailing limbs, and thorax heaving in frenzied contortions ... — Marvin Minsky

In India, I'm always 'Aruna Roy's husband.' — Bunker Roy

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. — Moby

I've been to 57 states. — Barack Obama

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. — Boris Yeltsin

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family. — George Jones

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. — Isaac Bashevis Singer