Forks And Spoons Quotes:

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

- Edward Lear

source: "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

topic: Dance, Food, Moon, Quince, Lear

They danced by the light of the moon.

- Edward Lear

source: "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

topic: Moon, Light, Ballet, Quince, Lear

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Gun, Spoons, World, Metal Detectors, Forks And Spoons

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

- Victor Hugo

topic: Two, Spoons, Miserable, Jean Valjean, Forks And Spoons

Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).

- George Johnson

source: George Johnson (2011). “Machinery of the Mind”, p.450, Crown

topic: Thinking, Knives, Games, Forks And Spoons, Shakers

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

- Theodore Zeldin

source: Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.96, Random House

topic: Gun, People, Bombs, Forks And Spoons

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

- John Lubbock

topic: Education, Reading, Teaching, Forks And Spoons