Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward,
they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
― J. W. von Goethe
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"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and
if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
― Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward,
they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
― J. W. von Goethe
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"I am a Khaleesi of the Dothraki. I am the wife of the great Kahl and I carry his son inside me. The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands. "
- Daenerys Targaryen
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A Nixon [is preferable to] a Dean Rusk ― who will be passionately
wrong with a high sense of consistency.
― J. K. Galbraith
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Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe
you.... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it
to be sure.
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"All my life men like you have sneered at me. And all my life I’ve been knocking men like you into the dust. "
- Lady Brienne of Tarth
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The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of
us who are fortunate enough never to have been one ― like watching
Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe.
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What is the difference between the modern computer and a Turing machine?
It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the
establishment of a Hilton on its peak.
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