Edsger Dijkstra quote: "The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better."

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in compute...
ALAN KAY

I have always been a good mimic.
ROBIN WRIGHT

I appreciated that and having read the comments would find them to be silly rather than something we...
DAVID GALLOP

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.
COLIN ANGLE

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
MARY GAITSKILL

Wading in the waters of complacency does not do me any justice as those waters simply mimic the bois...
DEBORAH SIMPSON

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are ...
HUSTON SMITH

It makes sense to mimic as much as you can the natural nest.
JOHN GALLEGOS

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matr...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)

You want to mimic what you would do when you are outside.
RICK MORRIS

Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and a...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.
JAMES P. GORMAN

I'm a good mimic.
WESLEY SNIPES

I watched the people around me and how they attained their success. They were like silent mentors. I...
DAN RADAKOVICH

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately f...
TANYA TUCKER

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
PLATO

Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.
HENRY ST. JOHN BOLINGBROKE

We're trying to make the atmosphere mimic that of the Carrier Dome.
HANNAH FESSLER

The symptoms of one mimic the symptoms of the other.
JIM MCCROSSIN

We are all Mimic Men...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
RICKY WHITTLE

Our intention was to respect and preserve the best aspects of the villa. We decided to enhance them,...
BRADLEY JOHNSON

We felt it would be a better use for the facility, rather than using it for office space. It would b...
DAISY FULTON

We allow nature to guide the process. Seawater can freeze like a layered material, so why not use th...
ANTONI TOMSIA

Ignorance though not excused, Inexcusable in a world so resourceful yet so complacent on mimic, huma...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL

They would rather use this as an issue to run scurrilous ads.
TOM DASCHLE

Therefore, predators who learned to associate either the bright colors of the less toxic or more tox...
CATHERINE DARST

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
MIA WASIKOWSKA

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a b...
MICK JAGGER

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze ...
JACK LONDON

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth a...
GROVER CLEVELAND

Better results will definitely be achieved by resorting to negotiations and using respectful languag...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI

The last thing I wanted to do was mimic him. I wanted to get his essence. It was the hardest thing I...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

Everything I do I see someone do... Not hating...Just observing.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER

It is ten times better to make your mind as your god,rather than money.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they soun...
ADELAIDE KANE

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use...
TRYON EDWARDS

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use ...
TRYON EDWARDS

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze...
JACK LONDON

Much of the country was agrarian. The candy was bean-shaped to mimic what was being produced in farm...
LANCE JENSEN

Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
ROY T. BENNETT

I would rather deal with it as I am, still have hope until we hear something definite. That's easier...
JUAN ARROYO

Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.
MARTY RUBIN

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them t...
LUCIAN FREUD

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.
KOYIE HILL

I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 ye...
JOHNNY DEPP

As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend ...
RACHEL ZOE

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a...
HUGH PRATHER

It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got...
CATHERINE GILBERT MURDOCK

We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.
FENNEL HUDSON

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant ...
JACK LONDON

Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve been intrigued by accents, ... It gets so natural that if I he...
HUNTER GOMEZ

Does it serve any useful purpose to know that Pompey was the first to exhibit the slaughter of eight...
SENECA

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compuls...
PLATO

These proteins mimic known host proteins in the cell in a very interesting way.
JACK DIXON

A large number of elderly people are taking medications that can mimic early dementia and are likely...
KAREN RITCHIE

Ever since I was a little boy, Ive been intrigued by accents, ... It gets so natural that if I hea...
HUNTER GOMEZ

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm ...
JOYCE GIRAUD

Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to cr...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

I'm not a flight risk. I would much rather use the time to prepare an appeal,
IRWIN SCHIFF

Using SWAT in this case is like using a sledgehammer on a fly. I'd much rather use a little bit of s...
JACK COLE

i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosi...
JACK KEROUAC

As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL

Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a...
ELEANOR CATTON

I would rather die doing something for the good of humanity than to live doing nothing!
ALI BABAR

I think, however, the current fascination with the computer and its principal product, information, ...
THEODORE ROSZAK

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness i...
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people...
ANGIE STONE

What! Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise - to add my caricature of one of t...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and ef...
CAMILLE CLAUDEL

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. O...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choos...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to pl...
JEMIMA KIRKE

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way pai...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, s...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI

Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI

I would always rather be happy than dignified.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

GOD has not given me the ability to change people but rather the mandate to help them discover chang...
EBENEZER O. AKINRINADE

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
JOHN DRYDEN

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever tak...
DAVID BECKHAM

'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.
JEFF LINDSAY

I would rather lie facedown on the ground
and use my body as a bridge,
than stand proud ...
KAMAND KOJOURI

There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in...
JAMES CARL NELSON

I hope South Africa will, rather than taking position in the middle,... use its moral high ground to...
GREGORY SCHULTE

The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, set...
MICHAEL PUNKE

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Am i talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say...
L.M. MONTGOMERY

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been be...
JOHN RUSKIN

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learn...
CHRIS CRUTCHER

Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

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The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

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