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“The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.”
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“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”
Source : "The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence". Book edited by Patrick Henry Winston and Karen Prendergast, 1984.
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“Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training”
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“The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.”
Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.29, Transaction Publishers
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“To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.”
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“The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.”
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“I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.”
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“The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.”
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“Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.”
Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS
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“I am not ready to back away from my views.”
