Random Quotes
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If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.Oriental Proverb
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.Jeff Meyer
If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.Mark Twain
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.Titus Livius
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.Dwight David Eisenhower, address at Guildhall, London, 7/12/45
Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.Mark Twain