#plausible

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible. ↗

— David Korten

#i #make #need #plausible #prediction

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. ↗

— Amy Clampitt

#doing #men #most #plausible #some

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously. ↗

— John Conyers

#far #far right #fringe #hard #ideas

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. ↗

— Alan Watts

#difficulty #god #idea #implausible #incredible

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#course #had #i #keep #limits

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#english #find #first #foremost #i

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #fullest #i #i think #life

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computation #computer #digital #fact #i