Douglas Lenat famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

  • I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

  • If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  • Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

  • War is the greatest failure of mankind.

  • Mankind is unamendable.

  • There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.

  • The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.

  • Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

  • The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.