Svenningsen Quotes & Sayings

She said yes three times, you treacle-brained idiot. Now can we get the hell out of this unsavory corner of London before we're all murdered? I have ledgers to tally. — Nicola Davidson

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. — John Naka

Finally there is the topic we talked about earlier, which is of great interest to me at the moment, the relationship between biology and culture. I've been reading the work of the late philosopher and theologian Claude Tresmontant. Tresmontant was a Christian, but his books interest me for what they have to say about genetic programming. He situates Christianity at the point of transition between genetic programming - dominant in archaic societies with regard to territorial defense, sexual and hoarding instincts, and so forth - and a new kind of evolutionary programming contained in culture rather than in genes. The argument is suggestive, but it needs to be developed further. Tresmontant doesn't take into account archaic religion, which he conflates with genetic programming in animals. Room has to be made for one more stage. MSB — Rene Girard

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. — John Dos Passos

Learn Christ, is to believe in him; "my Lord, and my God,"Jno. 20. 28 when we do not only believe God, but in God, which is the actual application of Christ to ourselves, and as it were the spreading of the sacred medicine of his blood upon our souls. — Thomas Watson

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. — Barbara Kruger

To die with elation is a crappy way of dying ... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it. — Carlos Castaneda

Turing knew of Babbage's work, and the universal Turing machine can be seen as a reincarnation of Difference Engine No. 2. In fact, Turing had gone much further, and provided computing with a solid theoretical basis, — Simon Singh