#turing

from a contradiction you may deduce everything ↗

— Janna Levin

#dreams

I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his intellectuality would, sooner or later, erode his faith or erode whatever he'd masked it with . . . For example, intellectuals like to dress themselves up as peasants . . . but it never works. The intellectual's constitution is impervious to such things - it permits only one object of worship - oneself. Generally speaking, an intellectual in the contemporary version is an exceptionally resourceful and, essentially, pitiful being. ↗

— Leonid Borodin

#intellectualism #intellectuals #posturing #pretense #faith

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent. ↗

— Eugenie Anderson

#between #book #capturing #difficult #even

here’s a toast to Alan Turing born in harsher, darker times who thought outside the container and loved outside the lines and so the code-breaker was broken and we’re sorry yes now the s-word has been spoken the official conscience woken – very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted – and the story does suggest a part 2 to the Turing Test: 1. can machines behave like humans? 2. can we? ↗

— Matt Harvey

#cs #gay #glbt #history #poetry

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy. ↗

— Andy Stern

#because #both #disappearing #economy #global

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. ↗

— Julian Assange

#nuturing #victim #victimhood #victims #men

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#difficulty #film #surprise

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. ↗

— Paul Berg

#contributions #curiosity #education #i #important

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#father #how #life #live #mother

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#almost #billion #child #china #commercial