What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Karl Popper

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Eric Hoffer

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Tom DeLonge

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Belva Lockwood

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ... The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Abraham Lincoln

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

David Millar

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Rebecca West

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Honore de Balzac

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.

M. Jones