#analog

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#humor #science #humor

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes ↗

— Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA

#computers #science

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#resentment #bad

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#body #contact #divine #life #soul

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #completely #democratic #democratic government #fulfills

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#borrow #first #i #identify #nature

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#between #different #easily #expertise #fields

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#breakfast #country #expect #far #first

Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics. ↗

— David Milne

#analog #company #economics #enjoys #first