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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.


Edsger Dijkstra

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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.
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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...
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
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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.
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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...
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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 I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze...
JACK LONDON 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...
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LUCIAN FREUD I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.
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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...
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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,
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JACK COLE i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosi...
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SUNIL MITTAL In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which ...
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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!
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ANGIE STONE What! Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise - to add my caricature of one of t...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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