Douglas Lenat famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.
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Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
-- Douglas Lenat
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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.
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I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
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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.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.
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The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.
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Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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