#turing

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

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#big #creating #deal #grand #i

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. ↗

— George Vancouver

#british #capturing #declaration #martinez #robbing

There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough. ↗

— Evan Davis

#complicated #degree #economy #enough #export