Igor Aleksander quotes

By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the Kasparov defeat they recognized that here was a great triumph for programmers, but not one that may compete with the human intelligence that helps us to lead our lives.
-- Igor Aleksander

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The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.