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- From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
- Subject: a few quotes...
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- Summary: quotations and references
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:50:35 GMT
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- Here are a few quotations along with their exact sources. [I've
- decided sometime ago never to quote anything I haven't actually
- read, and I hope others too provide precise pointers, so if one
- wants, one can go to the source.]
-
- enjoy... oz
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- Practice is a process of incremental compilation.
-
- G. J. Sussman
- A computer Model of Skill Acquisition
- Elsevier Computer Science Library, 1975
-
- It is not unusual in philosophy for a confused and hopeless dogma
- to resemble an important truth.
-
- Daniel Dennett
- The Myth of Original Intentionality
- in Modelling the Mind
- Oxford University Press, 1990
-
- If people are valuable, it is not because they are imperishable
- souls connected to bodies only for a brief sojourn.
-
- Drew McDermott
- Little "me"
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1992) 15, 217-218
-
-
- If I wanted to be facetious, I would declare that I am
- descended from Turing's machine on my spear side, and from a
- library on my spindle side.
-
- GOLEM, lecture XLIII
- Stanislaw Lem, Imaginary Magnitude
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984
-
- It is harder to get lost in an imagined forest than
- in a real one, for the former assists the thinker furtively.
-
- GOLEM, lecture XLIII
- Stanislaw Lem, Imaginary Magnitude
-
-
- A genius is an innovator who has got stuck in his
- innovation, his mind having been fashioned into a key for
- opening matters hitherto closed. Since many locks can be
- opened by a single key, genius, if sufficiently universal,
- appears versatile to you. Yet the fertility of a genius
- depends less on his key, and more on the issues locked away
- from you which the key fits.
-
- GOLEM, lecture XLIII
- Stanislaw Lem, Imaginary Magnitude
-
-