Keith Wansbrough's Cool Quotes

Alan Perlis

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

Ambrose Bierce

Here's to women! Would that we could fall into their arms withoutfalling into their hands!

Matt Mathis

The Internet is like a freight train roaring along while people are laying tracks in front of it. It's not just gaining on those laying tracks; it's gaining on the steel mills.

Murray Sheard

Why tiptoe through life so you can reach death safely?

Immanuel Kant

Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Søren Kierkegaard

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

Fritz Lang

Violence in recent film is the result of having no afterlife, no final judgement: the only consequence is physical pain, and so this is focussed on.

Mike Joblin

Who was the first person to ever milk a cow?
And what gave them the idea in the first place?

St. Irenaeus

You who will transcribe this book, I charge you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and of His glorious Second Coming, in which He will come to judge the living and the dead, compare what you have copied against the original and correct it carefully. Furthermore, transcribe this adjuration and place it in the copy.

Ernest Betts

Since the above was written speaking films have been launched as a commercial proposition, as the general pattern of the film of the future. As a matter of fact, their acceptance marks the most spectacular act of self-destruction that has yet come out of Hollywood, and violates the film's proper function at its source. The soul of the film---its eloquent and vital silence---is destroyed. The film now returns to the circus whence it came, among the freaks and the fat ladies.

Joseph E. Stoy

But there are also simpler examples: consider the language in which the value of every expression is the number 27. Such a language has a certain lack of expressive power, but it would be a solution of the metacircular interpreter formed from our semantic definition, and of the LISP interpreter, and others.

Joseph E. Stoy

[...] and the particular fixed point operator fix that we want is an element of the domain

[[[Ex->[[Id->E]->E]]->[Ex->[[Id->E]->E]]]->[Ex->[[Id->E]->E]]]

which, as Scott says somewhere [49], is a domain somewhat removed from everyday experience.

Michael J. Assels

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Russ Allbery

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