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Perkina · 03-04-2004, 12:38 PM

when in rome do as the romans do.
-my poppa

masterofNone · 03-04-2004, 01:13 PM

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G.K. Chesterton

born_effigy · 03-04-2004, 01:22 PM

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
--Jacques Martin Barzun

Smartypants · 03-04-2004, 02:22 PM

The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy, rapture! I've got a brain!

--The Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, with a bit of help from Pythagoras.

malina · 03-04-2004, 02:32 PM

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole

Smartypants · 03-04-2004, 02:47 PM

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

--Quentin Crisp

Hyakujo's Fox · 03-04-2004, 09:34 PM

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

William Hazlitt

nycwriters · 03-04-2004, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Hyakujo's Fox
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

William Hazlitt

Oh my. I'm in love with this quote. Thank you H-fox!

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"What makes us men is that we can think logically. What makes us human is that we sometimes choose not to."

-- Roger Ebert

Smartypants · 03-04-2004, 10:04 PM

"...however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man."

--Max Frisch

Hyakujo's Fox · 03-04-2004, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by nycwriters
Oh my. I'm in love with this quote. Thank you H-fox!

Yes. It's a good'un.

"He just can't help being faithful and loving and kind. He's a machine—made so."

Issac Asimov, "Robbie"

Smartypants · 03-04-2004, 10:43 PM

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god—the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

--William Shakespeare

masterofNone · 03-04-2004, 10:46 PM

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner

Smartypants · 03-04-2004, 10:50 PM

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

--Michel Foucault

malina · 03-04-2004, 11:02 PM

You mocked the creators of illusion, and now... you write using the alibi of a machine, telling yourself you are a spectator because you read yourself on the screen as if the words belonged to another, but you have fallen into the trap: you, too, are trying to leave footprints on the sands of time. You have dared to change the text of the romance of the world, and the romance of the world has taken you instead into its coils and involved you in its plot, a plot not of your making.
Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

aaron · 03-04-2004, 11:24 PM

Quote:

If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candies and nuts, we'd all have a wonderful Christmas

-The Simpsons

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03-04-2004, 01:13 PM	#467
masterofNone ________ Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 5,131	The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. G.K. Chesterton

03-04-2004, 02:22 PM	#469
Smartypants MR. Smartypants to you. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oh, YOU PEOPLE go ahead and call it "Frisco." See if I care. Posts: 3,967	The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy, rapture! I've got a brain! --The Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, with a bit of help from Pythagoras.

03-04-2004, 02:32 PM	#470
malina leaving Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: up on the hill Posts: 6,013	Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole

03-04-2004, 02:47 PM	#471
Smartypants MR. Smartypants to you. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oh, YOU PEOPLE go ahead and call it "Frisco." See if I care. Posts: 3,967	Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. --Quentin Crisp

03-04-2004, 09:34 PM	#472
Hyakujo's Fox left hanging Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: between the click of the light and the start of the dream Posts: 10,071	Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been. William Hazlitt

03-04-2004, 10:04 PM	#474
Smartypants MR. Smartypants to you. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oh, YOU PEOPLE go ahead and call it "Frisco." See if I care. Posts: 3,967	"...however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man." --Max Frisch

03-04-2004, 10:43 PM	#476
Smartypants MR. Smartypants to you. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oh, YOU PEOPLE go ahead and call it "Frisco." See if I care. Posts: 3,967	What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god—the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! --William Shakespeare

03-04-2004, 10:46 PM	#477
masterofNone ________ Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 5,131	The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner

03-04-2004, 10:50 PM	#478
Smartypants MR. Smartypants to you. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Oh, YOU PEOPLE go ahead and call it "Frisco." See if I care. Posts: 3,967	One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge. --Michel Foucault

03-04-2004, 11:02 PM	#479
malina leaving Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: up on the hill Posts: 6,013	You mocked the creators of illusion, and now... you write using the alibi of a machine, telling yourself you are a spectator because you read yourself on the screen as if the words belonged to another, but you have fallen into the trap: you, too, are trying to leave footprints on the sands of time. You have dared to change the text of the romance of the world, and the romance of the world has taken you instead into its coils and involved you in its plot, a plot not of your making. Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum