[ ( "\"...in case of need I will make bombards, mortars, and firethrowing engines of beautiful and practical design.\" It starts with Archimedes focusing the sun\8217s rays upon the fleet at Syracuse, it starts with the first rock hurled by the first grasping hand. It starts where we start. It is mind, it is hunger, it is greed, it is defense, it is mischief, it is the devil, it is the god; it is life..."
  , "Carter Scholz (<em>Radiance</em>/Leonardo da Vinci)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"A newspaper man has got to know when to keep his mouth and his mind shut. You might end up dead.\"<br />\"Isn\8217t that the usual fate of men, Harry?\""
  , "R. A. Lafferty (<em>Fourth Mansions</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Are you coming to bed?\"<br />\"I can\8217t. This is important.\"<br />\"What?\"<br />\"Someone is <em>wrong</em> on the Internet.\""
  , "<em>XKCD</em> (\"Duty Calls\")"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"How did you go bankrupt?\", Bill asked.<br />\"Two ways\", Mike said. \"Gradually and then suddenly.\""
  , "Ernest Hemingway (<em>The Sun Also Rises</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"I call that 'the falling problem'. You encounter it when you first study physics. You realize that, if you were ever dropped from a plane without a parachute, you could calculate with a high degree of accuracy how long it\8217s take to hit the ground, your speed, how much energy you\8217ll deposit into the earth. And yet, you would still be just as dead as a particularly stupid gorilla dropped the same distance. Mastery of the nature of reality grants you no mastery over the behavior of reality. I could tell you your grandpa is very sick. I could tell you what each cell is doing wrong, why it\8217s doing wrong, and roughly when it started doing wrong. But I can\8217t tell them to stop.\"<br />\"Why can\8217t you make a machine to fix it?\"<br />\"Same reason you can\8217t make a parachute when you fall from the plane.\"<br />\"Because it\8217s too hard?\"<br />\"Nothing is too hard. Many things are too fast.\""
  , "Zach Weiner"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"I did not understand a word; but <em>I know: this is philosophy</em>\" was the deep conviction of a highly gifted young physicist after he had heard Martin Heidegger speak."
  , "Karl Popper"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"I do not like it.\"\8212Why?\8212\"I am not up to it.\"\8212Has anyone ever answered like that?"
  , "Friedrich Nietzsche"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"I don\8217t speak\", Bijaz said. \"I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.\""
  , "Frank Herbert (<em>Dune Messiah</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"I see by your outfit you may be a preacher.\"<br />\"Yes, I am,\8212of the non-theistic, non-sectarian sort.\"<br />...\"A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.\""
  , "Roger Zelazny, (<em>Creatures of Light and Darkness</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"I will tell you what I am talking about\", he said. \"Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it\8217s your power. It can\8217t be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.<br />Now what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won\8217t use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the you so that you won\8217t abuse it.<br />But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.\""
  , "Michael Crichton (<em>Jurassic Park</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"In <em>that</em> direction\", the Cat said, waving its right paw round, \"lives a Hatter: and in <em>that</em> direction\", waving the other paw, \"lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they\8217re both mad.\" <br />\"But I don\8217t want to go among mad people\", Alice remarked.<br />\"Oh, you can\8217t help that\", said the Cat: \"we\8217re all mad here. I\8217m mad, you\8217re mad.\"<br />\"How do you know I\8217m mad?\" said Alice.<br />\"You must be\", said the Cat, \"or you wouldn\8217t have come here.\""
  , "Lewis Carroll (<em>Alice In Wonderland</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Is it hard?\"<br />\"Not if you have the right attitudes. It\8217s having the right attitudes that\8217s hard.\""
  , "Robert M. Pirsig (<em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"It\8217s this planet\", Scytale said. \"It raises questions...It speaks of creation. Sand blowing in the night, that is creation.\"<br />\"Sand blowing...\"<br />\"When you awaken, the first light shows you the new world\8212all fresh & ready for your tracks.\"<br />Untracked sand? Edric thought. Creation? He felt knotted with sudden anxiety.<br />The confinement of his tank, the surrounding room. Everything closed in upon him, constricted him...<br />\"So?\"<br />\"Another night comes\", Scytale said. \"Winds blow.\""
  , "Frank Herbert (<em>Dune Messiah</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Luck\" is useless as a strategy and \"Hard work\" is mostly useless. Prefer \"Discover rules then systematically exploit them.\""
  , "patio11"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Man has Nature whacked\", said someone to a friend of mine not long ago. In their context the words had a certain tragic beauty, for the speaker was dying of tuberculosis. \"No matter\", he said, \"I know I\8217m one of the casualties. Of course there are casualties on the winning as well as on the losing side. But that doesn\8217t alter the fact that it is winning.\""
  , "C. S. Lewis (<em>The Abolition of Man</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Now, Charlie, don\8217t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wished for.\"<br />\"What?\"<br />\"He lived happily ever after.\""
  , "<em>Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory</em>"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Pirates are perhaps the greatest invention of Earth people\", Elizabeth interrupted loftily, \"and their pirate stories are wonderful entertainment for small children. We have to give Earth people credit for that, they invented pirates.\""
  , "R. A. Lafferty (<em>The Reefs of Earth</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Should we trust models or observations?\" In reply we note that if we had observations of the future, we obviously would trust them more than models, but unfortunately observations of the future are not available at this time."
  , "Knutson & Tuleya 2005"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"The horror of that moment\", the King went on, \"I shall never <em>never</em> forget!\" \"You will, though\", \"the Queen said, \"if you don\8217t make a memorandum of it.\""
  , "Lewis Carroll (<em>Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"The people who wrote the medieval ballads\", answered the priest, \"knew more about fairies than you do. It isn\8217t only nice things that happen in fairyland.\"<br />\"Oh, bosh!\" said Flambeau. \"Only nice things could happen under such an innocent moon. I am for pushing on now and seeing what does really come. We may die and rot before we ever see again such a moon or such a mood.\"<br />\"All right\", said Father Brown. \"I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.\""
  , "G. K. Chesterton (\8220The Sins of Prince Saradine\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"The question is\", said Alice, \"whether you <em>can</em> make words mean so many different things.\"<br />\"The question is\", said Humpty Dumpty, \"which is to be master\8212that\8217s all.\""
  , "Lewis Carroll (<em>Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"There\8217s a blind spot in the center of your visual field\", Sarasti pointed out. \"You can\8217t see it. You can\8217t see the saccades in your visual timestream. Just two of the tricks you know about. Many others.\"<br /><br />Cunningham was nodding. \"That\8217s my whole point. Rorschach could be\8212\"<br /><br />\"Not talking about case studies. Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing\8212irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don\8217t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default. Rorschach does nothing to you that you don\8217t already do to yourselves.\""
  , "Peter Watts (<em>Blindsight</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic. Yes, Mr. Erskine, an absolutely reasonable people. I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans.\" \"How dreadful!\" cried Lord Henry. \"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.\""
  , "Oscar Wilde (<em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Think of the past!\"\8212<br />so the moonlight seems to say,<br />itself a remnant<br />of autumns long since gone,<br />that I could never know."
  , "Fujiwara no Teika"
  , False
  )
, ( "\"What are your fees?\" inquired Guyal cautiously.<br /><br />\"I respond to 3 questions\", stated the augur.<br /><br />\"For 20 terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language;<br />for 10 I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity;<br />for 5, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will;<br />and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.\""
  , "Jack Vance (<em>The Dying Earth</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"What did the Men of old use them [the <em>palant\237r</em>] for?\" asked Pippin, delighted and astonished at getting answers to so many questions...\"To see far off, and to converse in thought with one another\", said Gandalf...\"In the days of his wisdom Denethor would not presume to use it to challenge Sauron, knowing the limits of his own strength. But his wisdom failed...He was too great to be subdued to the will of the Dark Power, he saw nonetheless only those things which that Power permitted him to see. The knowledge which he obtained was, doubtless, often of service to him; yet the vision of the great might of Mordor that was shown to him fed the despair of his heart until it overthrew his mind.\""
  , "Gandalf (<em>The Return of the King</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"What do you see when you look in the Mirror [of Erised]?\"<br />\"I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woollen socks.\"<br />Harry stared.<br />\"One can never have enough socks\", said Dumbledore. \"Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn\8217t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.\""
  , "<em>Harry Potter and the Philosopher\8217s Stone</em>"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"What news?<br />\"None, my lord, but the world\8217s grown honest.\"<br />\"Then is Doomsday near.\""
  , "Hamlet (to Rosencrantz)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh\", said Piglet at last, \"What\8217s the first thing you say to yourself?\"<br />\"What\8217s for breakfast?\" said Pooh. \"What do <em>you</em> say, Piglet?\"<br />\"I say, I wonder what\8217s going to happen exciting <em>today</em>?\" said Piglet.<br />Pooh nodded thoughtfully.<br />\"It\8217s the same thing\", he said."
  , " <em>The House at Pooh Corner</em> (A. A. Milne)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Which side is evil?\" \"Well\", he<br /> said, \"the Aggressor.\"<br />\"I see you are superstitious\", he answered, \"You believe in<br />words.\""
  , "Robinson Jeffers (\8220The Inhumanist\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Who alive can say,<br />\"Thou art no Poet\8212may\8217st not tell thy dreams?\"<br />Since every man whose soul is not a clod<br />Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved,<br />And been well nurtured in his mother tongue."
  , "John Keats (<em>The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream</em> I 11-5)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Why, madam\", Lincoln replied, \"do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?\""
  , "Abraham Lincoln (to elderly lady demanding destruction of Southerners)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"You see this goblet?\" asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. \"For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, 'Of course.' When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.\""
  , "Mark Epstein (<em>Thoughts Without a Thinker</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"You see\", he explained, \"I consider that a man\8217s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent.<br />Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.\"<br /><br />\"But the Solar System!\" I protested.<br /><br />\"What the deuce is it to me?\" he interrupted impatiently; \"you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.\""
  , "Sherlock Holmes"
  , True
  )
, ( "\"Your case is very serious\", he said to the boy. \"We will go and consult the ancient authorities...\"<br />The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he had gone to his grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices.<br />It had been the first fast-food franchise established on the Bund, many decades earlier."
  , "Neal Stephenson (\"the magistrate confers with his advisers\", <em>Diamond Age</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "\"so what did you do before self-driving cars?\"<br />\"we just drove \8217em ourselves!\"<br />\"wow, no one died that way?\"<br />\"oh no, millions of people died\""
  , "Cat Beltane"
  , False
  )
, ( "'Nash equilibrium strategy' is not necessarily synonymous to 'optimal play'.<br />A Nash equilibrium can define an optimum, but only as a defensive strategy against stiff competition.<br />More specifically: Nash equilibria are hardly ever maximally exploitative. A Nash equilibrium strategy guards against any possible competition including the fiercest, and thereby tends to fail taking advantage of sub-optimum strategies followed by competitors.<br />Achieving maximally exploitative play generally requires deviating from the Nash strategy, and allowing for defensive leaks in one\8217s own strategy."
  , "Johannes Koelman"
  , True
  )
, ( "'Thinketh, it came of being ill at ease:<br />He hated that He cannot change His cold,<br />Nor cure its ache. 'Hath spied an icy fish<br />That longed to 'scape the rock-stream where she lived,<br />And thaw herself within the lukewarm brine<br />O' the lazy sea her stream thrusts far amid,<br />A crystal spike 'twixt two warm walls of wave;<br />Only, she ever sickened, found repulse<br />At the other kind of water, not her life,<br />(Green-dense and dim-delicious, bred o' the sun)<br />Flounced back from bliss she was not born to breathe,<br />And in her old bounds buried her despair,<br />Hating and loving warmth alike: so He.<br/ >...'Thinketh, such shows nor right nor wrong in Him,<br />Nor kind, nor cruel: He is strong and Lord.<br />'Am strong myself compared to yonder crabs<br />That march now from the mountain to the sea;<br />'Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first,<br />Loving not, hating not, just choosing so.<br />'Say, the first straggler that boasts purple spots<br />Shall join the file, one pincer twisted off;<br />'Say, this bruised fellow shall receive a worm,<br />And two worms he whose nippers end in red;<br />As it likes me each time, I do: so He."
  , "\"Caliban upon Setebos\" (Robert Browning)"
  , False
  )
, ( "'Twas yesterday,' I said,<br />And then, 'Today';<br />Tomorrow, as the Asuka River\8217s<br />Swift current<br />The time has come upon me."
  , "Harumichi no Tsuraki (\8220Composed at the end of the year\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "'We name things & then we can talk about them: can refer to them in talk.'\8212As if what we did next were given with the mere act of naming. As if there were only one thing called 'talking about a thing'. Whereas in fact we do the most various things with our sentences. Think of exclamations alone, with their completely different functions.<br /> Water!<br /> Away!<br /> Ow!<br /> Help!<br /> Fine!<br /> No!<br />Are you still inclined to call these words 'names of objects'?..."
  , "Wittgenstein (<em>Philosophical Investigations</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "'What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?'<br />'Well', said Pooh, 'what I like best\8212' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey <em>was</em> a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn\8217t know what it was called."
  , "<em>The House at Pooh Corner</em> (A. A. Milne)"
  , False
  )
, ( "'Wove wattles half the winter, fenced them firm<br />With stone and stake to stop she-tortoises<br />Crawling to lay their eggs here: well, one wave,<br />Feeling the foot of Him upon its neck,<br />Gaped as a snake does, lolled out its large tongue,<br />And licked the whole labour flat: so much for spite.<br />'Saw a ball flame down late (yonder it lies)<br />Where, half an hour before, I slept i' the shade:<br />Often they scatter sparkles: there is force!<br />'Dug up a newt He may have envied once<br />And turned to stone, shut up Inside a stone.<br />Please Him and hinder this?\8212What Prosper does?<br />Aha, if He would tell me how! Not He!<br />There is the sport: discover how or die!<br />All need not die, for of the things o\8217 the isle<br />Some flee afar, some dive, some run up trees;<br />Those at His mercy,\8212why, they please Him most<br />When . . . when . . . well, never try the same way twice!"
  , "\"Caliban upon Setebos\" (Robert Browning)"
  , False
  )
, ( "(This is the school in which we learn ...)<br />What is the self amid this blaze?<br />What am I now that I was then<br />Which I shall suffer and act again,<br />The theodicy I wrote in my high school days<br />Restored all life from infancy,<br />The children shouting are bright as they run<br />(This is the school in which they learn ...)<br />Ravished entirely in their passing play!<br />(...that time is the fire in which they burn.)"
  , "Delmore Schwartz (\8220Calmly We Walk through This April\8217s Day\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "(the richer tourists at Disney World wear t-shirts printed with the names of famous designers, because designs themselves can be bootlegged easily and with impunity. The only way to make clothing that cannot be legally bootlegged is to print copyrighted and trademarked words on it; once you have taken that step, the clothing itself doesn\8217t really matter, and so a t-shirt is as good as anything else. T-shirts with expensive words on them are now the insignia of the upper class. T-shirts with cheap words, or no words at all, are for the commoners)."
  , "Neal Stephenson (<em>In the Beginning Was the Commandline</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...And so we go on dealing with the fortress [Ch\226teau d\8217If], Abb\233 Faria sounding out the weak points of the wall and coming up against new obstacles, I [Edmond Dant\232s] reflecting on his unsuccessful attempts in order to conjecture new outlines of walls to add to the plan of my fortress-conjecture.<br />If I succeed in mentally constructing a fortress from which it is impossible to escape, this conceived fortress either will be the same as the real one\8212and in this case it is certain we shall never escape from here, but at least we will achieve the serenity of one who knows he is here because he could be nowhere else\8212or it will be a fortress from which escape is even more impossible than from here\8212and this, then, is a sign that here an opportunity of escape exists: we have only to identify the point where the imagined fortress does not coincide with the real one and then find it."
  , "\8220The Count of Monte Cristo\8221, Italo Calvino"
  , False
  )
, ( "...Deep Blue\8217s creators know its <em>quantitative</em> superiority over other chess machines intimately, but lack the chess understanding to share Kasparov\8217s deep appreciation of the difference in the <em>quality</em> of its play. I think this dichotomy will show up increasingly in coming years. Engineers who know the mechanism of advanced robots most intimately will be the last to admit they have real minds. From the inside, robots will indisputably be machines, acting according to mechanical principles, however elaborately layered. Only on the outside, where they can be appreciated as a whole, will the impression of intelligence emerge. A human brain, too, does not exhibit the intelligence under a neurobiologist\8217s microscope that it does participating in a lively conversation."
  , "Hans Moravec"
  , False
  )
, ( "...For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.<br />...For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.<br />For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.<br />For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.<br />For he is tenacious of his point.<br />For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.<br />For he knows that God is his Saviour.<br />For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.<br />For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.<br />For he is of the Lord\8217s poor and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually\8212Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.<br />...For he can jump from an eminence into his master\8217s bosom.<br />For he can catch the cork and toss it again.<br />...For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.<br />For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.<br />For he killed the Ichneumon-rat very pernicious by land.<br />For his ears are so acute that they sting again.<br />For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.<br />For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.<br />For I perceived God\8217s light about him both wax and fire.<br />For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance, which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.<br />For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.<br />For, tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.<br />For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.<br />For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.<br />For he can swim for life.<br />For he can creep."
  , "Christopher Smart (\8220Jubilate Agno\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.<br />For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.<br />For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.<br />For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.<br />For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.<br />For he rolls upon prank to work it in.<br />For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.<br />For this he performs in ten degrees.<br />For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.<br />For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.<br />For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.<br />For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.<br />For fifthly he washes himself.<br />For sixthly he rolls upon wash.<br />For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.<br />For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.<br />For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.<br />For tenthly he goes in quest of food.<br />For having consider\8217d God and himself he will consider his neighbour.<br />For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.<br />For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.<br />For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.<br />For when his day\8217s work is done his business more properly begins.<br />For he keeps the Lord\8217s watch in the night against the adversary.<br />For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.<br />For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.<br />For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.<br />For he is of the tribe of Tiger.<br />For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.<br />For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.<br />For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.<br />For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he\8217s a good Cat.<br />For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.<br />For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit..."
  , "Christopher Smart (\8220Jubilate Agno\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...He often lying broad awake, and yet<br />Remaining from the body, and apart<br />In intellect and power and will, hath heard<br />Time flowing in the middle of the night,<br />And all things creeping to a day of doom."
  , "Lord Alfred Tennyson (\8220The Mystic\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...I had my lady Castlemayne in my arms and was admitted to use all the dalliance I desired with her, and then dreamt that this could not be awake, but that since it was a dream, and that I took so much real pleasure in it, what a happy thing it would be if when we are in our graves...we could dream, and dream such dreams as this, that then we should not need to be so fearful of death, as we are in this plague time."
  , "Samuel Pepys (diary)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...In the heart of that light, lucid and inevitable, all that was scattered cohered. Superbright and all its progeny stood plain before him in conception and in detail and in its component part and its deepest strategies and in its awful and enticing radiance. He saw the design and the making of that device complete, and of further devices without end, and he stood apart from them as if it mattered not at all whether the deviser was himself or whether they came into being sooner or later. Trembling he stared across the burning fields and whispered, \8212Stop. Stop. But the traffic rushed on."
  , "Carter Scholz (<em>Radiance</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...It is no surprise that when this model fails, it is the likelihood rather than the prior that is causing the problem. In the binomial model under consideration here, the prior comes into the posterior distribution only once and the likelihood comes in <em>n</em> times. It is perhaps merely an accident of history that skeptics and subjectivists alike strain on the gnat of the prior distribution while swallowing the camel that is the likelihood."
  , "Andrew Gelman"
  , True
  )
, ( "...Its social accountability seems sort of like that of designers of military weapons: unculpable right up until they get a little too good at their job."
  , "David Foster Wallace"
  , True
  )
, ( "...Let me add a certain virile reply recorded by De Quincey (<em>Writings</em> XI, 226). Someone flung a glass of wine in the face of a gentleman during a theological or literary debate. The victim did not show any emotion and said to the offender: 'This, sir, is a digression; now, if you please, for the argument.' (The author of that reply, a certain Dr. Henderson, died in Oxford around 1787, without leaving us any memory other than those just words: a sufficient and beautiful immortality.)<br /><br />A popular tale, which I picked up in Geneva during the last years of World War I, tells of Migel Servert\8217s reply to the inquisitors who had condemned him to the sake: 'I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.'"
  , "Borges (\8220The Art of Verbal Abuse\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...Obviously, it was his own view that had been in error. That was quite a realization, that he had been wrong. He wondered if he had ever been wrong about anything important."
  , "Sterren (<em>The Unwilling Warlord</em>, Lawrence Watt-Evans)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!<br />We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.<br />No soldier\8217s paid to kick against His powers.<br />We laughed,\8212knowing that better men would come,<br />And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags<br />He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags."
  , "Wilfred Owen (\8220The Next War\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...One day, when one of this friends had said some handsome things of his extraordinary talents, Sir Isaac, in an easy and unaffected way, assured him, that for his own part he was sensible, that whatever he had done worth notice, was owing to a patience of thought, rather than an extraordinary sagacity which he was endowed with above other men. <strong>I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait \8217till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.</strong> And hence we are able to give a very natural account of that unusual kind of horror which he had for all disputes upon these points; a steady unbroken attention was his peculiar felicity, he knew it, and he knew the value of it. In such a situation of mind, controversy must needs be looked upon him as his bane. However, he was at a great distance from being steeped in Philosophy: on the contrary, he could lay aside his thoughts, though engaged in the most intricate researches, when his other affairs required his attendance and, as soon as he had leisure, resume the subject at the point where he left off. This he seems to have done, not so much by any extraordinary strength of memory, as by the force of his inventive faculty, to which every thing opened itself again with ease, if nothing intervened to ruffle him. The readiness of his invention made him not think of putting his memory much to the trial; but this was the offspring of a vigorous intenseness of thought, out of which he was but a common man."
  , "<em>Biographia Britannica</em> (1760)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...One might think that this betting game is rather contrived. For example, what if one refuses to bet? Does that end the argument? The answer is that the betting game is an abstract model for decision-making situation in which every agent is unavoidably involved at every moment. Every action (including inaction) is a kind of bet, and every outcome can be seen as a payoff of the bet. Refusing to bet is like refusing to allow time to pass."
  , "Russell & Norvig"
  , False
  )
, ( "...Pernicious anemia was then not considered curable. So Hilbert suddenly seemed quite old. He was only about 65, which seems rather young to me now. But life no longer much interested him. I knew very well that old age comes eventually to everyone who survives his stay on this earth. For some people, it is a time of ripe reflection, and I had often envied old men their position. But Hilbert had aged with awful speed, and the prematurity of his decline took the glow from it. His breadth of interest was nearly gone and with it the engaging manner that had earned him so many disciples. Hilbert eventually got medical treatment for his anemia and managed to live until 1943. But he was hardly a scientist after 1925, and certainly not a Hilbert. I once explained some new theorem to him. As soon as he saw that its use was limited, he said, \"Ah, then one doesn\8217t really have to learn this one.\" It was painfully clear that he did not want to learn it.<br />...I had come to G\246ttingen to be Hilbert\8217s assistant, but he wanted no assistance. We can all get old by ourselves."
  , "Eugene P. Wigner (<em>Recollections</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...Some may think these trifling matters not worth minding or relating; but when they consider that tho\8217 dust blown into the eyes of a single person, or into a single shop on a windy day, is but of small importance, yet the great number of the instances in a populous city, and its frequent repetitions give it weight and consequence, perhaps they will not censure very severely those who bestow some attention to affairs of this seemingly low nature. Human felicity is produc\8217d not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."
  , "Benjamin Franklin"
  , False
  )
, ( "...The firefly has disappeared<br />and only I remain, alone\8212<br />at the end of darkness<br />I greet the morning that brightens.<br /><br />The dew dangling on the grass<br />looks beautiful in the morning sunlight.<br /><br />Someday in heaven<br />I will live as a poet<br />who sings about you, firefly,<br />reincarnated as the dew."
  , "Kim Nam-ju (\8220A Firefly\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...There I begin to shape the old handle<br />With the hatchet, and the phrase<br />First learned from Ezra Pound<br />Rings in my ears!<br />\"When making an axe handle<br />the pattern is not far off.\"<br />And I say this to Kai<br />\"Look: We\8217ll shape the handle<br />By checking the handle<br />Of the axe we cut with\8212\"<br />And he sees. And I hear it again:<br />It\8217s in Lu Ji\8217s W\234n Fu, 4<sup>th</sup> century<br />A. D. \"Essay on Literature\"\8212in the<br />Preface: \"In making the handle<br />Of an axe<br />By cutting wood with an axe<br />The model is indeed near at hand.\"<br />My teacher Shih-hsiang Chen<br />Translated that and taught it years ago<br />And I see Pound was an axe<br />Chen was an axe, I am an axe<br />And my son a handle, soon<br />To be shaping again, model<br />And tool, craft of culture,<br />How we go on."
  , "Gary Snyder (\8220Axe Handles\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...These studies are the record of a failure\8212the failure of facts to sustain a preconceived theory. The facts assembled, however, seemed worthy of further examination. If they would not prove what we had hoped to have them prove, it seemed desirable to turn them loose and to follow them to whatever end they might lead."
  , "Edgar Lawrence Smith"
  , False
  )
, ( "...We stand by the window embracing, and people look<br />up from the street:<br />it is time they knew!<br />It is time the stone made an effort to flower,<br />time unrest had a beating heart.<br />It is time it were time.<br />It is time."
  , "Paul Celan (\8220Corona\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...Well:<br />All glory is a wonder,<br />All greatness is glorious,<br />& All mighty things are great.<br />Any passing duke<br />Commands black cloth\8212<br />Whatever we recall<br />Of the man inside the suit."
  , "\"Kennedy\" I (Mencius Moldbug)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...When I did 2 hits of acid, I had the exact opposite experience of seeing God. The fact that such a tiny amount of a mere chemical could effect my 'soul' so profoundly was proof positive that the soul is completely material. I already believed this intellectually, but this experience solidified this knowledge into my very being. So personally, I would recommended experimenting with a psychedelic or two for those who wish to study Philosophy."
  , "darius42"
  , True
  )
, ( "...You are indignant.<br />You say it is too easy to offer grass.<br />It is absurd.<br />Anyone can offer a blade of grass.<br /><br />You ask for a poem.<br />And so I write you a tragedy about<br />How a blade of grass<br />Becomes more and more difficult to offer,<br /><br />And about how as you grow older<br />A blade of grass<br />Becomes more difficult to accept."
  , "Brian Patten (\8220A blade of grass\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...You bend your pallid head<br /><br />And sadly make your way\8212the moment fled -<br />And with it, unrecalled, what once you wrote:<br /><em>And for his epitaph a moon of blood</em>."
  , "Borges (\8220To an Old Poet\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...[an] objection says that a machine can never \8216take us by surprise\8217. This statement is a more direct challenge and can be met directly. Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
  , "Alan Turing (1950)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...a fable by Han Yu, a prose writer of the 9th century, and it is found in the admirable <em>Anthologie raisonee de la literature chinoise</em> (1948) by Margoulies. This is the mysterious and tranquil paragraph I marked:<br />\"It is universally admitted that the unicorn is a supernatural being of good omen; such is declared in all the odes, annals, biographies of illustrious men and other texts whose authority is unquestionable. Even children and village women know that a unicorn constitutes a favorable presage. But this animal does not figure among the domestic beasts, it is not always easy to find, it does not lend itself to classification. It is not like the horse or the bull, the wolf or the deer. In such conditions, we could be face to face with a unicorn and not know for certain what it was. We know that such and such an animal with a mane is a horse and that such and such an animal with horns is a bull. But we do not know what the unicorn is like.\""
  , "Borges"
  , False
  )
, ( "...but I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to have no place in experimental philosophy.<br />To us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and acts according to the laws which we have explained."
  , "Isaac Newton (<em>Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world.<br />It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.<br />Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
  , "Henri Poincar\233"
  , True
  )
, ( "...in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it...A relatively straightforward way of measuring how much scarce resources a message consumes is by noting how much time the recipients spends on it."
  , "Herbert A. Simon (\"Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World\" 1971)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...in the morning<br />When the light drips through the shutters like the dew,<br />I arise, I face the sunrise,<br />And do the things my fathers learned to do.<br />Stars in the purple dusk above the rooftops<br />Pale in a saffron mist and seem to die,<br />And I myself on a swiftly tilting planet<br />Stand before a glass and tie my tie.<br />...It is morning. I stand by the mirror<br />And tie my tie once more.<br />While waves far off in a pale rose twilight<br />Crash on a white sand shore.<br />I stand by a mirror and comb my hair:<br />How small and white my face!\8212<br />The green earth tilts through a sphere of air<br />And bathes in a flame of space.<br />There are houses hanging above the stars<br />And stars hung under a sea. . .<br />And a sun far off in a shell of silence<br />Dapples my walls for me. . ."
  , "Conrad Aiken (\8220Morning Song of Senlin\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragons teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unlesse warinesse be us\8217d, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image; but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm\8217d and treasur\8217d up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great losse; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the losse of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole Nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of publick men, how we spill that season\8217d life of man preserv\8217d and stor\8217d up in Books; since we see a kinde of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdome, and if it extend to the whole impression, a kinde of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elementall life, but strikes at that ethereall and fift essence, the breath of reason it selfe, slaies an immortality rather then a life."
  , "John Milton (<em>Aeropagitica</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...neither can Caesar abide any longer a superior<br />nor Pompey an equal. Who took up arms more justly?<br />It is <em>nefas</em> to know. Each side looks to its own great judge<br />The victor\8217s cause was pleasing to the gods, but the vanquished\8217s to Cato."
  , "Lucan, (<em>The Civil War</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...of the two major thermonuclear calculations made that summer at Berkeley, they got one right and one wrong."
  , "Toby Ord (<em>The Precipice</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...organizations which design systems...are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
  , "Conway\8217s Law"
  , False
  )
, ( "...the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
  , "Thoreau (<em>Walden</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...the discovery of computers and the thinking about computers has turned out to be extremely useful in many branches of human reasoning. For instance, we never really understood how lousy our understanding of languages was, the theory of grammar and all that stuff, until we tried to make a computer which would be able to understand language. We tried to learn a great deal about psychology by trying to understand how computers work. There are interesting philosophical questions about reasoning, and relationship, observation, and measurement and so on, which computers have stimulated us to think about anew, with new types of thinking. And all I was doing was hoping that the computer-type of thinking would give us some new ideas, if any are really needed."
  , "Richard Feynman"
  , True
  )
, ( "...the large, highly evolved sensory and motor portions of the brain seem to be the hidden powerhouse behind human thought. By virtue of the great efficiency of these billion-year-old structures, they may embody one million times the effective computational power of the conscious part of our minds.<br />While novice performance can be achieved using conscious thought alone, master-level expertise draws on the enormous hidden resources of these old and specialized areas. Sometimes some of that power can be harnessed by finding and developing a useful mapping between the problem and a sensory intuition."
  , "Hans Moravec (<em>Mind Children</em> 1988)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...the mass of an object never seems to change: a spinning top has the same weight as a still one. So a \8220law\8221 was invented: mass is constant, independent of speed. That \8220law\8221 is now found to be incorrect. Mass is found to increase with velocity, but appreciable increases require velocities near that of light. A <em>true</em> law is: if an object moves with a speed of less than one hundred miles a second the mass is constant to within one part in a million. In some such approximate form this is a correct law. So in practice one might think that the new law makes no significant difference. Well, yes and no. For ordinary speeds we can certainly forget it and use the simple constant-mass law as a good approximation. But for high speeds we are wrong, and the higher the speed, the more wrong we are.<br />Finally, and most interesting, <em>philosophically we are completely wrong</em> with the approximate law. Our entire picture of the world has to be altered even though the mass changes only by a little bit. This is a very peculiar thing about the philosophy, or the ideas, behind the laws. Even a very small effect sometimes requires profound changes in our ideas."
  , "Richard Feynman (<em>Lectures on Physics</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...the spacing that has made for the most successful inductions will have tended to predominate through natural selection. Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praiseworthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind...In induction nothing succeeds like success."
  , "W. V. O. Quine (\8220Natural Kinds\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...there are<br />still songs to be sung on the other side<br />of mankind."
  , "Paul Celan (\8220Thread Suns\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "...there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from...the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them."
  , "Niccolo Machiavelli (<em>The Prince</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...we think so much reversal is based on \"We think something should work, and so we\8217re going to adopt it before we know that it actually does work\", and one of the reasons for this is because that\8217s how medical education is structured. We learn the biochemistry, the physiology, the pathophysiology as the very first things in medical school. And over the first two years we kind of get convinced that everything works mechanistically the way we think it does."
  , "Adam Cifu"
  , True
  )
, ( "...well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. <br />Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you\8212if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers\8212the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity.<br />In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think. "
  , "Fred Brooks (?)"
  , False
  )
, ( "...who would fardels bear,<br />To grunt and sweat under a weary life,<br />But that the dread of something after death,<br />That undiscover\8217d country from whose bourne<br />No traveler returns, puzzles the will<br />And makes us rather bear those ills we have<br />Than fly to others that we know not of?"
  , "Hamlet"
  , False
  )
, ( "...you can depend on Americans to do the right thing when they have exhausted every other possibility."
  , ""
  , True
  )
, ( "...\8220Then why are you doing the research?\8221 Bostrom asked. \8220I could give you the usual arguments,\8221 Hinton said. \8220But the truth is that the prospect of discovery is too <em>sweet</em>.\8221 He smiled awkwardly, the word hanging in the air\8212an echo of Oppenheimer."
  , "Raffi Khatchadourian (2015)"
  , True
  )
, ( "0, 1, or infinity." , "Old programmer saying" , True )
, ( "1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.<br />2. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
  , "<em>Dhammapada<em>"
  , True
  )
, ( "1. One man\8217s constant is another man\8217s variable. 34. The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "10 years it took<br />To build my cottage.<br />Now the cool wind inhabits half of it<br />And the rest is filled with moonlight.<br /><br />There is no place left for the mountain and stream<br />So I guess they will just have to stay outside."
  , "Song Soon"
  , True
  )
, ( "100. We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "108. Whenever 2 programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.\8230\&112. Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.\8230\&115. Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible. 116. You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. 117. It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?"
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "11. (A beginning ends what an end begins.<br />204. By looking for the origins of things we deceive ourselves about their inevitability. Things that did not happen also have origins.<br />209. Nature is not that prejudiced against the past. Yesterday is only a little less likely to happen next than any one of the zillion possible tomorrows that does.<br />217. All the falling rain is caught.<br />499. To feel an end is to discover that there had been a beginning. A parenthesis closes that we hadn\8217t realized was open)."
  , "Richardson 2001 (<em>Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "113. Education is so slow, disorganized, accidental that sometimes it seems I could have relaxed for forty years and then learned everything I know in a few months of really efficient study. Then again, I\8217m not sure what I know.<br />115. Of very few subjects can it be said that the order in which we would teach them is the order in which we really learned them. The beginning is what we first see when we get to the end and turn around.<br />116. If I didn\8217t spend so much time writing, I\8217d know a lot more. But I wouldn\8217t know anything.<br />312. I could explain, but then you would understand my explanation, not what I said."
  , "Richardson 2001 (<em>Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "116. If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil.<br />121. Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little.<br />122. Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little."
  , "<em>Dhammapada</em>"
  , True
  )
, ( "124. There are crimes I don\8217t commit mainly because I don\8217t want to find out I could.<br />159. Passions are the great defense against passion.<br />166. Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.<br />169. <em>He is sincere</em>, we say, meaning there is nothing else to be said.<br />293. He may not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if some day he might.<br />237. How much less difficult life is when you do not want anything from people. And yet you owe it to them to want something.<br />174. Debts of a certain immensity demand betrayal."
  , "Richardson 2001 (<em>Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "143. Is there in this world any man so restrained by humility that he does not mind reproof, as a well-trained horse the whip?<br />144. Like a well-trained horse when touched by the whip, be ye active and lively, and by faith, by virtue, by energy, by meditation, by discernment of the law you will overcome this great pain (of reproof), perfect in knowledge and in behavior, and never forgetful.<br />145. Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves."
  , "<em>Dhammapada</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "15. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.\8230\&30. In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general\8212and often we know it too quickly.\8230\&31. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.\8230\&58. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.\8230\&65. Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers\8212not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.\8230\&56. Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "16. When you see anyone weeping in grief because his son has gone abroad, or is dead, or because he has suffered in his affairs, be careful that the appearance may not misdirect you. Instead, distinguish within your own mind, and be prepared to say, \"It\8217s not the accident that distresses this person, because it doesn\8217t distress another person; it is the judgment which he makes about it.\" As far as words go, however, don\8217t reduce yourself to his level, and certainly do not moan with him. Do not moan inwardly either."
  , "Epictetus"
  , False
  )
, ( "227. This is an old saying, O Atula, this is not only of to-day: \"They blame him who sits silent, they blame him who speaks much, they also blame him who says little; there is no one on earth who is not blamed.\""
  , "<em>Dhammapada</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "271. While I am laughing at you, asshole, I do not hate you very much. But I am not doing <em>you</em> any favors. My hate, after all, happens to <em>me</em>.<br />273. You who have proved how much like me you are: how could I trust you?<br />285. I need a much larger vocabulary to talk to you than to talk to myself.<br />300. I forget the future, but when it happens I remember.<br />23. All stones are broken stones.<br />453. The mercy of a stone is in asking no mercy.<br />476. Some of my secrets everybody knows, but not that they are secrets."
  , "Richardson 2001 (<em>Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "28. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.<br />29. Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.<br />30. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.<br />31. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.<br />32. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.<br />34. The five elements (water, fire, wood, metal, earth) are not always equally predominant; the four seasons make way for each other in turn. There are short days and long; the moon has its periods of waning and waxing."
  , "<em>The Art of War</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "3. \"He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me\",\8212in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.<br />4 \"He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me\",\8212in those who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease.<br />5 For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule."
  , "<em>Dhammapada<e>"
  , False
  )
, ( "3. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.<br />4. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity.  Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.<br />5. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.<br />...15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy\8217s provisions is equivalent to twenty of one\8217s own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one\8217s own store."
  , "<em>The Art of War</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "3. There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.<br />4. The general who thoroughly understands the advantages that accompany variation of tactics knows how to handle his troops.<br />5. The general who does not understand these, may be well acquainted with the configuration of the country, yet he will not be able to turn his knowledge to practical account."
  , "<em>The Art of War</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "36. The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics\8212it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "38. \"The world is not what anyone wished for, but it\8217s what everyone wished for.\""
  , "James Richardson (<em>Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "39. Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words\8212but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "40 years ago, I could say in the <em>Whole Earth Catalog</em>, 'we are as gods, we might as well get good at it'...What I\8217m saying now is we are as gods and have to get good at it."
  , "Stewart Brand"
  , False
  )
, ( "402. \8216Nothing is so certain as that I possess consciousness.\8217 In that case, why shouldn\8217t I let the matter rest? This certainty is like a mighty force whose point of application does not move, and so no work is accomplished by it.<br />403. Remember: most people say one feels nothing under anesthetic. But some say: It <em>could</em> be that one feels, and simply forgets it completely."
  , "Wittgenstein, <em>Zettel</em> (1929\8211\&1948)"
  , False
  )
, ( "447. Disquiet in philosophy might be said to arise from looking at philosophy wrongly, seeing it wrong, namely as if it were divided into (infinite) longitudinal strips instead of into (finite) cross strips. This inversion in our conception produces the <em>greatest</em> difficulty. So we try as it were to grasp the unlimited strips and complain that it cannot be done piecemeal. To be sure it cannot, if by a piece one means an infinite longitudinal strip. But it may well be done, if one means a cross-strip.<br />\8212But in that case we never get to the end of our work!\8212Of course not, for it has no end.<br />(We want to replace wild conjectures and explanations by quiet weighing of linguistic facts.)"
  , "Wittgenstein"
  , False
  )
, ( "48. The best book on programming for the layman is <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>; but that\8217s because it\8217s the best book on anything for the layman."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "5. Ax built the house but sleeps in the shed.<br />10. I\8217ve spent so long trying to fly that it\8217s too late to set out on foot.<br />15. Institutions are the opposite of God: their periphery is everywhere, their center nowhere.<br />31. So much of happiness is accidental that there are few rules for it. But one is: don\8217t rule out accident.<br />41. Listen to criticism: it reminds you what you were afraid to know. Don\8217t listen too carefully: what you must do is something better than it knows how to say.<br />45. What people say of us is no truer than what we say of ourselves. It only hurts more because we believe it.<br />54. The real danger of success is thinking you understand the reasons for it.<br />55. Would I give back all my undeserved failures if I also had to give back my undeserved successes?<br />79. Games are for those who do not know they are games. Or for those who do. But they should not play together.<br />90. When I am free I cannot tell who is choosing for me. But the one struggling with chains is always myself.<br />91. If you make rules only you can win by, they will play by other rules.<br />93. I think therefore I think again.<br />117. The water cannot talk without the rocks.<br />125. Who had to beg owes you nothing.<br />148. Billions of years, the dust hasn\8217t settled. Water\8217s still seeking its own level."
  , "Richardson (\8220Vectors 2.0: More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "6. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.<br />7. There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.<br />8. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.<br />9. There are not more than five cardinal tastes (sour, acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.<br />10. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack\8212the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.<br />11. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circle\8212you never come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?"
  , "<em>The Art of War</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "60. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law."
  , "<em>Dhammapada</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.\8230\&93. When someone says \8220I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done\8221, give him a lollipop.\8230\&102. One can\8217t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "77. The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the 3 standing ill at ease.\8230\&79. A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.\8230\&84. Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "8. A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.\8230\&19. A language that doesn\8217t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.\8230\&54. Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "9. When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.<br />10. People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."
  , "Pascal"
  , False
  )
, ( "91. The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney\8212it is the machine of a thousand faces."
  , "Alan J. Perlis (\8220Epigrams on Programming\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "<div class=\"interview\">\n<p><strong>Gravedigger</strong>: This same skull, sir, was, sir,\nYorick\8217s skull, the / King\8217s jester.</p>\n<p><strong>Hamlet</strong>: This?</p>\n<p><strong>Gravedigger</strong>: E\8217en that.</p>\n<p><strong>Hamlet</strong>: [taking the skull] Let me see. Alas, poor /\nYorick! I knew him, Horatio\8212a fellow of infinite / jest, of most\nexcellent fancy. He hath bore me on his / back a thousand times, and now\nhow abhorred in / my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung\n/ those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. / Where be your\ngibes now? your gambols? your / songs? your flashes of merriment that\nwere wont to / set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your / own\ngrinning? Quite chapfallen? Now get you to my / lady\8217s chamber, and tell\nher, let her paint an inch / thick, to this favor she must come. Make\nher laugh / at that.</p>\n<hr />\n<p><strong>Hamlet</strong>: \8212Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing.</p>\n<p><strong>Horatio</strong>: What\8217s that, my lord?</p>\n<p><strong>Hamlet</strong>: Dost thou think Alexander looked o\8217 this /\nfashion i\8217 th\8217 earth?</p>\n<p><strong>Horatio</strong>: E\8217en so.</p>\n<p><strong>Hamlet</strong>: And smelt so? Pah! [He puts the skull\ndown.]</p>\n<p><strong>Horatio</strong>: E\8217en so, my lord.</p>\n<p><strong>Hamlet</strong>: To what base uses we may return, Horatio! /\nWhy may not imagination trace the noble dust of / Alexander till he find\nit stopping a bunghole?</p>\n<p><strong>Horatio</strong>: \8217Twere to consider too curiously to\nconsider / so.</p>\n<p><strong>Hamlet</strong>: No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him\nthither, / with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it, as / thus:\nAlexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander / returneth to dust; the\ndust is earth; of earth / we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he\n/ was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar,\ndead and turned to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. / O,\nthat that earth which kept the world in awe / Should patch a wall t\8217\nexpel the winter\8217s flaw!</p>\n</div>"
  , "<em>Hamlet</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "<em>C\8217est pire qu\8217un crime; c\8217est une faute.</em><br />\"It\8217s worse than a crime; it\8217s a mistake.\""
  , "Talleyrand (on the killing of the Duc D\8217Enghien)"
  , True
  )
, ( "<em>EVE Online</em> is unique in gaming in that we have always played on the same massive server in the same online universe since May 2003 when it first went live. We not only understand the harsh penalties for failure, but also how longevity and persistence is rewarded with success. When you have over 60,000 people on weekends dealing, scheming, and shooting each other, it attracts a certain type of gamer. It\8217s not a quick fix kind of game.<br />We enjoy building things that last, be they virtual spaceships or real life friendships that together translate into massive Empires and enduring legacies.<br />Those of us who play understand that one man really can truly make a difference in our world."
  , "Mark 'Seleene' Heard (Vile Rat eulogy 2012)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<em>Impute</em>\8212the process by which an impression of a product, company or person is formed by mentally transferring the characteristics of the communicating media...People <strong>do</strong> judge a book by its cover...The general impression of Apple Computer Inc. (our image) is the combined result of everything the customer sees, hears or feels from Apple, not necessarily what Apple actually is! We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities."
  , "Mike Markkula, \"The Apple Marketing Philosophy: Empathy \183 Focus \183 Impute\" (1979)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<em>Je n\8217avais pas besoin de cette hypoth\232se-l\224.</em>"
  , "Pierre-Simon Laplace"
  , True
  )
, ( "<em>Kitty Pryde</em>: \"Science, magic, politics\8212is there anything you <strong>can\8217t</strong> do?\"<br /><em>Dr. Doom</em>: \"Knit. I find it repetitive.\""
  , "Michelinie (<em>The Avengers: Emperor Doom</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<em>Nego consequentiam</em>!<br />I don\8217t see at all why I should have respect for lies and frauds because other people are stupid.<br />I respect truth everywhere, and it is precisely for that reason that I cannot respect anything that is opposed to it.<br />My maxim is, <em>Vigeat veritas, et pereat mundus</em>, the same as the lawyer\8217s <em>Fiat justitia, et pereat mundus</em>.<br />Every profession ought to have an analogous device."
  , "Arthur Schopenhauer (\8220Religion. A Dialogue\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<em>Question to Radio Yerevan</em>: \8220Is it correct that Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev won a luxury car at the All-Union Championship in Moscow?\8221<br /><em>Radio Yerevan answered</em>: \8220In principle, yes. But first of all it was not Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev, but Vassili Vassilievich Vassiliev; second, it was not at the All-Union Championship in Moscow, but at a Collective Farm Sports Festival in Smolensk; third, it was not a car, but a bicycle; and fourth he didn\8217t win it, but rather it was stolen from him.\8221"
  , "\"Radio Yerevan Jokes\""
  , False
  )
, ( "<em>Quis custodiet ipsos custodes</em>?" , "Juvenal" , True )
, ( "<em>Res audita perit, litera scripta manet.</em>"
  , ""
  , True
  )
, ( "<em>The Iron Law of Evaluation</em>: \"The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero.\""
  , "Rossi 1987"
  , False
  )
, ( "<em>The Stainless Steel Law of Evaluation</em>: \"The better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.\""
  , "Rossi 1987"
  , False
  )
, ( "<em>There is always a way out.</em>"
  , "Jean le Flambeur"
  , True
  )
, ( "<em>\917\947\947\973\945 \960\940\961\945 \948'\945\964\951.</em> (Certainty, then ruin.)"
  , "the Oracle"
  , True
  )
, ( "<p>About suffering they were never wrong,<br />The Old Masters: how well they understood<br />Its human position; how it takes place<br />While someone else is eating or opening a window or just<br />walking dully along;<br />How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting<br />For the miraculous birth, there always must be<br />Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating<br />On a pond at the edge of the wood:<br />They never forgot<br />That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course<br />Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot<br />Where the dogs go on with their doggy<br />life and the torturer\8217s horse<br />Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.<br /></p><p>In Bruegel\8217s <em>Icarus</em>, for instance: how everything turns away<br />Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may<br />Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,<br />But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone<br />As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green<br />Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen<br />Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,<br />had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.</p>"
  , "W. H. Auden, \8220Mus\233e des Beaux Arts\8221 (1938)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<p>Do you think I\8217d have given it to the fishermen if it were more than a toy? No, I am my own great work. And I am my only great work!\8221 Dr.\160Talos whispered, \8220Look about you\8212don\8217t you recognize this? It is just as he says!\8221</p> <p>\8220What do you mean?\8221 I whispered in return.</p> <p>\8220The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark, our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind\8217s dreams.\8221</p> <p>\8220You\8217re mad\8221, I said. \8220Or joking.\8221</p> <p>\8220Mad?\8221 Baldanders rumbled. \8220<em>You</em> are mad. You with your fantasies of theurgy. How they must be laughing at us. They think all of us barbarians\8230 I, who have labored three lifetimes.\8221</p>"
  , "<em>The Sword of the Lictor</em>, Gene Wolfe"
  , False
  )
, ( "<p>The next day the little prince came back.</p> <p>\8220It would have been better to come back at the same hour\8221, said the fox. \8220If, for example, you come at 4 o\8217clock in the afternoon, then at 3 o\8217clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At 4 o\8217clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you\8230 One must observe the proper rituals\8230\8221</p> <p>\8220What is a ritual?\8221 asked the little prince.</p> <p>\8220Those also are actions too often neglected\8221, said the fox. \8220They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a ritual, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all.\8221</p> <p>So the little prince tamed the fox.</p>"
  , "<em>The Little Prince</em>, Antoine de Saint-Exup\233ry"
  , False
  )
, ( "<p>When I first came there, I found two other pupils of mine own age newly arrived, Hakim Omar Khayyam, and the ill-fated Ben Sabbah. Both were endowed with sharpness of wit and the highest natural powers; and we three formed a close friendship together. When the Imam rose from his lectures, they used to join me, and we repeated to each other the lessons we had heard. Now Omar was a native of Naishapur, while Hasan Ben Sabbah\8217s father was one Ali, a man of austere life and practice, but heretical in his creed and doctrine. One day Hasan said to me and to Khayyam, \8220It is a universal belief that the pupils of the Imam Mowaffak will attain to fortune. Now, even if we <em>all</em> do not attain thereto, without doubt one of us will, what then shall be our mutual pledge and bond?\8221 We answered, \8220Be it what you please.\8221\8212</p> <p>\8220Well\8221, he said, \8220let us make a vow, that to whomsoever this fortune falls, he shall share it equally with the rest, and reserve no pre-eminence for himself.\8221\8212\8220Be it so\8221, we both replied.</p> <p>\8230The Vizier was generous and kept his word. Hasan demanded a place in the government, which the Sultan granted at the Vizier\8217s request; but, discontented with a gradual rise, he plunged into the maze of intrigue of an Oriental court, and, failing in a base attempt to supplant his benefactor, he was disgraced and fell\8230One of the countless victims of the Assassin\8217s dagger was Nizam ul Mulk himself, the old school-boy friend.</p> <p>\8230Omar Khayyam also came to the Vizier to claim his share; but not to ask for title or office. \8220The greatest boon you can confer on me\8221, he said, \8220is to let me live in a corner under the shadow of your fortune, to spread wide the advantages of Science, and pray for your long life and prosperity.\8221 The Vizier tells us, that, when he found Omar was really sincere in his refusal, he pressed him no further, but granted him a yearly pension of 1,200 <em>mithkals</em>\8230At Naishapur thus lived and died Omar Khayyam, \8220busied\8221, adds the Vizier, \8220in winning knowledge of every kind, and especially in Astronomy, wherein he attained to a very high pre-eminence. Under the Sultanate of Malik Shah he came to Merv, and obtained great praise for his proficiency in science, and the Sultan showered favours upon him.\8221</p>"
  , "\8216Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet Of Persia\8217, Edward Fitzgerald (<em>Rubaiyat</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<p>You might not know this old tree by its bark,<br />Which once was striate, smooth, and glossy-dark,<br />So deep now are the rifts that separate<br />Its roughened surface into flake and plate.</p><p>Fancy might less remind you of a birch<br />Than of mosaic columns in a church<br />Like Ara Coeli or the Lateran<br />Or the trenched features of an ag\232d man.</p><p>Still, do not be too much persuaded by<br />These knotty furrows and these tesserae<br />To think of patterns made from outside in<br />Or finished wisdom in a shriveled skin.</p><p>Old trees are doomed to annual rebirth,<br />New wood, new life, new compass, greater girth,<br />And this is all their wisdom and their art\8212<br />To grow, stretch, crack, and not yet come apart.</p>"
  , "Richard Wilbur, \"A Black Birch in Winter\" (1974)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<p>\8212Suddenly <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein\" class=\"id-not link-live\">Einstein</a> stopped reading and handed <a href= \"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Rosenthal-Schneider\" class=\"id-not link-live\">me</a> a telegram he had picked up from the window sill, saying, \8220You might be interested in this.\8221 It was a telegram from Eddington with the results of the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment\" class=\"link-live\">famous eclipse expedition</a>. Full of excitement, I exclaimed, \8220How wonderful, this is almost the value you calculated.\8221 Completely calm, he remarked, \8220I knew the theory was correct. Did you doubt it?\8221 I replied, \8220No, of course not. But what would you have said if the confirmation hadn\8217t been so?\8221 He replied: \8220I could just feel sorry for dear God, the theory is correct.\8221 Here he used\8212as so often\8212the word \8220God\8221 instead of \8220nature\8221.</p>"
  , "Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Rosenthal-Schneider#Quote_of_a_discussion_with_Albert_Einstein,_November_1919\"><em>Begegnungen mit Einstein, von Laue und Planck: Realit\228t und wissenschaftliche Wahrheit</em></a>, 1988"
  , False
  )
, ( "<p>\8220Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?\8221<br /> \8220That depends a good deal on where you want to get to\8221, said the Cat. \8220I don\8217t much care where\8212\8221 said Alice.<br />\8220Then it doesn\8217t matter which way you go\8221, said the Cat.<br />\8220\8212so long as I get <strong>somewhere</strong>\8221, Alice added as an explanation.<br />\8220Oh, you\8217re sure to do that\8221, said the Cat, \8220if you only walk long enough.\8221</p>"
  , "Lewis Carroll (<em>Alice In Wonderland</em>, chapter 6)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<p>\8230How feather-frail, think, is the track of the vole<br />On new snow! How wide is the world! How fleeting and thin<br />Its mark of identity, breath<br />In a minuscule issue of whiteness<br />In air that is brighter than steel! The vole pauses, one paw<br />Uplifted in whiteness of moonlight.</p><p>\8230Again the owl calls, and with some sadness you wonder<br />If at last, when the air-scything shadow descends<br />And needles claw-clamp through gut, heart and brain,<br />Will ecstasy melting with terror create the last little cry?<br />Is God\8217s love but the last and most mysterious word for death?</p><p>Has the thought ever struck you to rise and go forth\8212yes, lost<br />In the whiteness\8212to never look upward, or back, only on,<br />And no sound but the snow-crunch, and breath<br />Gone crisp like the crumpling of paper? Listen!<br />Could that be the creak of a wing-joint gigantic in distance?</p><p>No, no\8212just a tree, far off, when ice inward bites.<br />No, no, don\8217t look back\8212oh, I beg you!</p><p>I beg you not to look back, in God\8217s name.</p>"
  , "\8220Heart of the Backlog\8221, Robert Penn Warren (1978)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<span class=\"smallcaps\">The Law of Truly Large Numbers</span>: \"With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.\""
  , "Diaconis & Mosteller 1989"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>A:</strong> \"I don\8217t understand how my brain works. But my brain is what I rely on to understand how things work.\"<br /><strong>B:</strong> \"Is that a problem?\"<br /><strong>A:</strong> \"I\8217m not sure how to tell.\""
  , "XKCD (\8220Debugger\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Ananda</strong>: When will the perfume be digested?<br /><br /><strong>Vimalakirti</strong>:<br />When the fields stop steaming,<br />stop giving and needing,<br />this perfume will be digested.<br /><br />When we have laid our hands<br />on the body of a loved one<br />and felt nothing but our own heat,<br />this perfume will fade away,<br />like fire sculpting itself into nothing."
  , "Christine Hartzler (\8220After Eating the Buddha-Food from the Buddha-Field of Summer\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Brian</strong>: \"Look, you\8217ve got it all wrong! You don\8217t <em>need</em> to follow <em>me</em>, You don\8217t <em>need</em> to follow <em>anybody</em>! You\8217ve got to think for your selves! You\8217re <em>all</em> individuals!\"<br /><strong>The Crowd</strong>: \"Yes! We\8217re all individuals!\""
  , "<em>Monty Python\8217s Life of Brian</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Glendower</strong>:<br />\"I can call spirits from the vasty deep.\"<br /><br /><strong>Hotspur</strong>:<br />\"Why, so can I, or so can any man;<br />But will they come when you do call for them?\""
  , "Shakespeare (<em>Henry The Fourth, Part I</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Indy</strong>: \"So you said you\8217re a good mimic?\"<br /><strong>Nicholas Gurewitch</strong>: [interrupting] \"Not a good one: a patient one. I guess patience is very mistakable for talent these days...I think if you do anything patiently people mistake it for being genius when in reality it\8217s just the result of an unfathomable amount of patience, in my case.\""
  , "Nicholas Gurewitch (\8220Perry Bible Fellow: A Conversation with Nicholas Gurewitch\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>John Of Gaunt:</strong> O, but they say the tongues of dying men<br />Enforce attention like deep harmony:<br />Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,<br />For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.<br />He that no more must say is listen\8217d more<br />Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose;<br />More are men\8217s ends mark\8217d than their lives before:<br />The setting sun, and music at the close,<br />As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,<br />Writ in remembrance more than things long past..."
  , "Shakespeare (<em>King Richard II</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Kaji</strong>: \8220Have you gotten the answer you wanted?\8221<br /><strong>Gendo</strong>: \8220You didn\8217t know? One does not \8216get\8217 answers. Normally, one is forced to receive them.\8221"
  , "<em>Re-Take</em> (Studio Kimigabuchi)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Noriko</strong>: \"Wow, you must have a real knack for it!\"<br /><br /><strong>Kazumi</strong>: \"That\8217s not it, Miss Takaya! It takes hard work in order to achieve that.\"<br /><br /><strong>Noriko</strong>: \"Hard work? You must have a knack for hard work, then!\""
  , "<em>Gunbuster</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Noriko</strong>: \8220Wow, you must have a real knack for it!\8221<br /><strong>Kazumi</strong>: \8220That\8217s not it, Miss Takaya! It takes hard work in order to achieve that.\8221<br /><strong>Noriko</strong>: \8220Hard work? You must have a knack for hard work, then!\8221"
  , "<em>Gunbuster</em> (episode 1)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>OMNI</strong>: Will robots be complex enough to be friends of people, do you think?</p> <p><strong>Shannon</strong>: I think so. But it\8217s quite a way away.</p> <p><strong>OMNI</strong>: Could you imagine being friends with a robot?</p> <p><strong>Shannon</strong>: Yes I could. I could imagine that happening very easily. I see no limit to the capability of machines. The microchips are getting smaller and smaller and faster and faster and I can see them getting better than we are. I can visualize sometime in the future we will be to robots as dogs are to humans."
  , "<a href=\"/doc/cs/algorithm/information/1987-liversidge.pdf#page=12\">1987 interview</a>"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Q:</strong> \"How long do you want your messages to remain secure?\"<br /><strong>A:</strong> \"For as long as the hearts of men are capable of evil.\""
  , "<em>Cryptonomicon</em> (paraphrased)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Rin:</strong> \"What are clouds? I always thought they were thoughts of the sky or something like that. Because you can\8217t touch them.\"<br />[ . . . ]<br /><strong>Hisao:</strong> \"Clouds are water. Evaporated water. You know they say that almost all of the water in the world will at some point of its existence be a part of a cloud. Every drop of tears and blood and sweat that comes out of you, it\8217ll be a cloud. All the water inside your body too, it goes up there some time after you die. It might take a while though.\"<br /><strong>R:</strong> \"Your explanation is better than any of mine.\"<br /><strong>H:</strong> \"Because it\8217s true.\"<br /><strong>R:</strong> \"That must be it.\""
  , "<em>Katawa Shoujo</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Rosencrantz</strong>: \"Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?\"<br /><strong>Guildenstern</strong>: \"No, no, no... death is not. Death isn\8217t. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can\8217t not be on a boat.\"<br /><strong>Rosencrantz</strong>: \"I\8217ve frequently not been on boats.\"<br /><strong>Guildenstern</strong>: \"No, no... what you\8217ve been is not on boats.\""
  , "Tom Stoppard (<em>Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Theodotus</strong>: \"What is burning there [the Library of Alexandria] is the memory of mankind.\"<br /><strong>Caesar</strong>: \"A shameful memory. Let it burn.\""
  , "<em>Caesar and Cleopatra</em> (George Bernard Shaw)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>Touji:</strong> \8220Oh, yes. the view of the world that one can have is quite small.\8221<br /><strong>Hikari:</strong> \8220Yes, you measure things only by your own small measure.\8221<br /><strong>Asuka:</strong> \8220One sees things with the truth, given by others.\8221<br /><strong>Misato:</strong> \8220Happy on a sunny day.\8221<br /><strong>Rei:</strong> \8220Gloomy on a rainy day.\8221<br /><strong>Asuka:</strong> \8220If you\8217re taught that, you always think so.\8221<br /><strong>Ritsuko:</strong> \8220But, you can enjoy rainy days.\8221"
  , "<em>NGE</em> (#26)"
  , False
  )
, ( "<strong>culturejammer:</strong> you know what pennies are AWESOME for?<br /><strong>culturejammer:</strong> throwing at cats<br /><strong>culturejammer:</strong> it only costs a single penny<br /><strong>culturejammer:</strong> and they\8217ll either chase it, or get hit by it and look pissed off<br /><strong>culturejammer:</strong> i now use that system to value prices of things<br /><strong>culturejammer:</strong> for example, a 30 dollar game has to be at least as awesome as 3,000 catpennies."
  , "Bash.org"
  , False
  )
, ( "A <em>skeptical</em> solution of a philosophical problem begins...by conceding that the skeptic\8217s negative assertions are unanswerable.<br />Nevertheless our ordinary practice or belief is justified because\8212contrary appearances notwithstanding\8212it need not require the justification the sceptic has shown to be untenable.<br />And much of the value of the sceptical argument consists precisely in the fact that he has shown that an ordinary practice, if it is to be defended at all, cannot be defended in a certain way."
  , "Saul Kripke"
  , False
  )
, ( "A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit." , "Alex Tabarrok" , True )
, ( "A Flea settled upon the bare foot of a Wrestler and bit him, causing the man to call loudly upon Hercules for help. When the Flea a second time hopped upon his foot, he groaned and said, \"O Hercules! if you will not help me against a Flea, how can I hope for your assistance against greater antagonists?\""
  , "The Flea and the Wrestler (<em>Aesop\8217s Fables</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting."
  , "George Savile (1750)"
  , True
  )
, ( "A Trumpeter, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy. He cried out to his captors, \"Pray spare me, and do not take my life without cause or without inquiry. I have not slain a single man of your troop. I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet.\"<br />\"That is the very reason for which you should be put to death\", they said; \"for, while you do not fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle.\""
  , "<em>Aesop\8217s Fables</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.<br />This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows."
  , "Princess Irulan (<em>Dune</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: \"If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!\""
  , "The Boy Hunting Locusts (<em>Aesop\8217s Fables</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A bright and pleasant<br />autumn day to make<br />death\8217s journey."
  , "Fukyu"
  , True
  )
, ( "A calling lark<br />stays aloft up in the sky<br />while its field<br />is turned under by the plow\8212<br />leaving no bed in the grass below."
  , "Sh\333tetsu"
  , False
  )
, ( "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
  , "Nietzsche"
  , True
  )
, ( "A caterpillar<br />this deep in fall<br />\8212still not a butterfly."
  , "Bash\333"
  , True
  )
, ( "A centipede was happy\8212quite!<br />Until a toad in fun<br />Said, \"Pray, which leg moves after which?\"<br />This raised her doubts to such a pitch,<br />She fell exhausted in the ditch</br>Not knowing how to run."
  , "Anonymous 1871?"
  , False
  )
, ( "A certain amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain;<br />nor need you regret the hours you spend on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions."
  , "William Johnson Cory"
  , False
  )
, ( "A certain mother habitually rewards her small son with ice cream after he eats his spinach. What additional information would you need to be able to predict whether the child will:<br />a. Come to love or hate spinach,<br />Love or hate ice cream, or<br />c. Love or hate Mother?"
  , "Gregory Bateson (<em>Steps to an Ecology of the Mind</em> 1987)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A child has much to learn before it can pretend. (A dog cannot be a hypocrite, but neither can he be sincere.)"
  , "Wittgenstein (<em>Philosophical Investigations</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.<br />The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.<br />You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."
  , "Gall\8217s Law"
  , False
  )
, ( "A courteous handsome young man<br />well-versed in the Classics and Histories<br />people address him <em>sir</em><br />everyone calls him a scholar<br />but he hasn\8217t found a position yet<br />and he doesn\8217t know how to farm<br />in winter he wears a tattered robe<br />this is how books fool us"
  , "Han-Shan"
  , False
  )
, ( "A critical analysis of the present global constellation\8212one which offers no clear solution, no \"practical\" advice on what to do, and provides no light at the end  of the tunnel, since one is well aware that this light might belong to a train crashing towards us\8212usually meets with reproach: \"Do you mean we should do nothing ? Just sit and wait?\"<br />One should gather the courage to answer: \"<strong>Yes</strong>, precisely that!\" There are situations when the only truly \"practical\" thing to do is to resist the temptation to engage immediately and to \"wait and see\" by means of a patient, critical analysis."
  , "Slavoj \381i\382ek (<em>Violence</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A crow is a bird, an eagle is a bird, a dove is a bird.<br />They all fly in the night and in the day. They fly when<br />the sky is red and when the heaven is blue. They fly through<br />the atmosphere. We cannot fly. We are not like a crow or<br />an eagle or a dove. We are not birds. But we can dream about<br />them. You can."
  , "<em>Racter</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "A crow rises<br />like ink unspilling itself<br />from the pines"
  , "David Troupes (<em>The Fountain Men</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "A crowd is not the sum of the individuals who compose it.<br />Rather it is a species of animal, without language or real consciousness, born when they gather, dying when they depart."
  , "Gene Wolfe"
  , False
  )
, ( "A curious feature of the coming millennium is how little speculation it has prompted. I remember in the 1960s being rung up by journalists asking, \"What will sex be like in the seventies?\" They expected something strange and unimaginable, but looking back after 20 years it all seemed much the same. A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won\8217t happen."
  , "J. G. Ballard"
  , False
  )
, ( "A few honest men are better than numbers."
  , "Oliver Cromwell"
  , True
  )
, ( "A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play."
  , "James P. Carse"
  , False
  )
, ( "A finite player is trained not only to anticipate every future possibility, but to control the future to <em>prevent</em> it from altering the past. This is the finite player in the mode of seriousness with its dread of unpredictable consequences."
  , "James P. Carse"
  , False
  )
, ( "A fisherman embittered by a storm,<br />Sold his boat and bought a horse;<br />But dragging a load up winding mountain paths<br />Is no better.<br /><br />Now he thinks he will not work on a boat,<br />Or a horse, but on a farm instead."
  , "Chang Mann"
  , False
  )
, ( "A further point, too, is that these people who never attain independence follow the views of their predecessors, first, in matters in which everyone else without exception has abandoned the older authority concerned, and secondly, in matters in which investigations are still not complete. But no new findings will ever be made if we rest content with the findings of the past. Besides, a man who follows someone else not only does not find anything, he is not even looking. \"But surely you are going to walk in your predecessors\8217 footsteps?\" Yes indeed, I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. The men who pioneered the old routes are leaders, not our masters. Truth lies open to everyone. There has yet to be a monopoly of truth. And there is plenty of it left for future generations too."
  , "Seneca"
  , False
  )
, ( "A good foe is far more loyal, far more predictable, and, to the clever, far more useful than any admirer."
  , "Nicholas Nassim Taleb"
  , False
  )
, ( "A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning 5 or 6 times; a dozen or 2 dozen times and he is great."
  , "Randall Jarrell"
  , False
  )
, ( "A good rule of thumb might be, \"If I added a zero to this number, would the sentence containing it mean something different to me?\" If the answer is 'no', maybe the number has no business being in the sentence in the first place."
  , "Randall Munroe"
  , False
  )
, ( "A good rule of thumb to ask yourself in all situations is, \"If not now, then when?\" Many people delay important habits, work and goals for some hypothetical future. But the future quickly becomes the present and nothing will have changed."
  , "Scott Young"
  , False
  )
, ( "A machine is not a way of doing something; it stands in the way of doing something...The goal of technology is therefore to eliminate itself, to become silent, invisible, carefree...A perfect radio will draw no attention to itself, will make it seem we are in the very presence of the source of its sound...<br />When it is most effective, machinery will have no effect at all."
  , "James P. Carse"
  , False
  )
, ( "A man sets himself the task of portraying the world.<br />Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people.<br />Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face."
  , "Borges (\8220Epilogue\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A man so various, that he seem\8217d to be<br />Not one, but all mankind\8217s epitome<br />Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;<br />Was every thing by starts, & nothing long;<br />But, in the course of 1 revolving moon,<br />Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, & buffoon<br />Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,<br />Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking."
  , "John Dryden (\8220Absalom & Achitophel\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at 5 o'clock has the whole afternoon from 1 to 5 ruined for him already."
  , "Lin Yutang"
  , False
  )
, ( "A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it."
  , "Oscar Wilde"
  , False
  )
, ( "A mark of maturity: the ability to have no opinions in many areas."
  , "Alain de Botton"
  , True
  )
, ( "A mule who has carried a pack for 10 campaigns under Prince Eugene will be no better a tactician for it, and it must be confessed, to the disgrace of humanity, that many men grow old in an otherwise respectable profession without making any greater progress than this mule."
  , "Frederick the Great (\8220Thoughts on Tactics\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A murmur of rain had started again. He lay there in the abyss of his thoughts as her breathing beside him steadied and deepened. Almost a voice stirred in him. It starts before Hanford, it almost said. It starts with R\246ntgen\8288, with the piece of barium glowing in the path of invisible rays, striking out the fire that God had put there. It starts with his wife\8217s hand on the photographic plate, its transparence there, the ashen bones visible within the milky flesh. Who could imagine that this radiance at the heart of matter could be malign? That with its light came fire? (Yet from the first the ashen bones were there to see within the flesh.) It starts with Becquerel carrying the radium in his pocket that burned his skin, and darkened the unexposed film. It starts with Marie Curie poisoning herself in that pale uncanny glow. With Rutherford guessing at this new alchemy, guessing that matter, giving up its glow, transformed itself one element into another. With the miners at Joachimsthal\8288, deep under the Erzgebirge\8288, inhaling the dust of uranium and dying of \8220mountain sickness\8221\8288. With women who by the thousands in watch factories tipped their brushes with that glow\8288\8288\8288, touched it to their tongues before painting the dial face, women who only much later, when the watches\8217 glow had faded, sickened and died from that radiance taken into their bones. It begins with Ernest Lawrence rushing across the Berkeley campus, the idea of a proton accelerator uncontainable in his mind, calling out, I\8217m going to be famous! With Oppenheimer at Jornada del Muerte that morning of Trinity. With the scientists who had prised open the gates to that blazing realm past heaven or hell. What were they now at the Lab in all their thousands, but the colonial bureaucrats of that realm, the followers and functionaries, the clerks and commissars? Mere gatekeepers of that power. Or in its keeping. It goes of its own momentum beyond Hanford, to Trinity, to Hiroshima, to the prisoners, the cancer patients, the retarded children, the pregnant women injected or fed this goblin matter to see would it bring health or sickness, the soldiers huddled in trenches against the flash, bones visible in their arms through closed eyes, staring up at the roiling cloudrise, the sheepherders, the farms, the homes, the gardens downwind. And in his sleep the voice long stilled spoke once more. It starts with Sforza; in case of need I will make bombards, mortars, and firethrowing engines of beautiful and practical design. It starts with Archimedes focusing the sun\8217s rays upon the fleet at Syracuse, it starts with the first rock hurled by the first grasping hand. It starts where we start. It is mind, it is hunger, it is greed, it is defense, it is mischief, it is the devil, it is the god; it is life."
  , "Carter Scholz (<em>Radiance</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.<br />Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: \"You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.\"<br />Knight turned the machine off and on.<br />The machine worked."
  , "<em>AI Koans</em> (\8220Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A paradox arises when two seemingly airtight arguments lead to contradictory conclusions\8212conclusions that cannot possibly both be true. It\8217s similar to adding a set of numbers in a two-dimensional array and getting different answers depending on whether you sum up the rows first or the columns. Since the correct total must be the same either way, the difference shows that an error must have been made in at least one of the two sets of calculations. But it remains to discover at which step (or steps) an erroneous calculation occurred in either or both of the running sums. There are two ways to rebut an argument. We might call them \8216countering\8217 and \8216invalidating\8217.</p> <ul> <li>To counter an argument is to provide another argument that establishes the opposite conclusion.</li> <li>To invalidate an argument, we show that there is some step in that argument that simply does not follow from what precedes it (or we show that the argument\8217s premises\8212the initial steps\8212are themselves false).</li> </ul> <p>If an argument starts with true premises, and if every step in the argument does follow, then the argument\8217s conclusion must be true. However, invalidating an argument\8212identifying an incorrect step somewhere-does not show that the argument\8217s conclusion must be false. Rather, the invalidation merely removes that argument itself as a reason to think the conclusion true; the conclusion might still be true for other reasons. Therefore, to firmly rebut an argument whose conclusion is false, we must both invalidate the argument and also present a counterargument for the opposite conclusion.<br />In the case of a paradox, invalidating is especially important. Whichever of the contradictory conclusions is incorrect, we\8217ve already got an argument to counter it\8212that\8217s what makes the matter a paradox in the first place! Piling on additional counterarguments may (or may not) lead to helpful insights, but the counterarguments themselves cannot suffice to resolve the paradox. What we must also do is invalidate the argument for the false conclusion-that is, we must show how that argument contains one or more steps that do not follow.</p> <p>Failing to recognize the need for invalidation can lead to frustratingly circular exchanges between proponents of the conflicting positions. One side responds to the other\8217s argument with a counterargument, thinking it a sufficient rebuttal. The other side responds with a counter-counterargument\8212perhaps even a repetition of the original argument\8212thinking it an adequate rebuttal of the rebuttal. This cycle may persist indefinitely. With due attention to the need to invalidate as well as counter, we can interrupt the cycle and achieve a more productive discussion."
  , "Gary Drescher (<em>Good and Real</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A parasol twirled<br />Under midsummer\8217s rays<br />Men\8217s eyes towards the clouds<br />And yours toward the ground<br /><br />...Embroideries and golds<br />Insatiable desire<br />Incenses at moonlight<br />In Fuji\8217s twilight shadow<br />Glances cloaked in silk<br />A fan, a kimono<br />Eyes and lips open<br />Heart steeled<br />Death<br />Death to your son\8217s cousin<br />Death<br />Death to all opposition<br />Smiling<br />Half-pursed lips<br />Stifling a giggle<br />The glee of a young girl..."
  , "Sebastian Marshall (\8220Lady Yodo-Dono\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
  , "Charles Kettering"
  , True
  )
, ( "A reaction drive\8217s efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."
  , "Larry Niven (\8220The Kzinti Lesson\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "A remarkable aspect of your mental life is that you are rarely stumped. True, you occasionally face a question such as 17 \215 24 = ? to which no answer comes immediately to mind, but these dumbfounded moments are rare. The normal state of your mind is that you have intuitive feelings and opinions about almost everything that comes your way. You like or dislike people long before you know much about them; you trust or distrust strangers without knowing why; you feel that an enterprise is bound to succeed without analyzing it. Whether you state them or not, you often have answers to questions that you do not completely understand, relying on evidence that you can neither explain nor defend."
  , "Daniel Kahneman (<em>Thinking, Fast and Slow</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A smile, a laugh<br />A grin, a whirl<br />A suppression of truth and honor<br />And the execution of young Hidetsugu<br />So, stand on the ramparts<br />Of Osaka Castle<br />May your Hideyori<br />Rule for 10,000 years<br />Consumption of gold and pearls<br />Spices and incenses<br />Wines and sake<br />And oh-so much attention<br />Somewhere<br />Nene is crying<br />Hideaki is stewing<br />Mitsunari is blundering<br /><br />Somewhere<br />Hidetada is training with his blade<br />Mototada is training his forces<br />Ieyasu is setting his pieces<br /><br />Somewhere<br />The East is rising<br />The Christians are preparing<br />And Hideyori is not<br /><br />But laugh, and joy, and whirl<br />No one can see through you<br />Certainly, the Toyomi<br />Will live 10,000 years"
  , "Sebastian Marshall (\8220Lady Yodo-Dono\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the publick is not to be kept but by tribute, and the remembrance of past service will quickly languish, unless successive performances frequently revive it. Yet in every new attempt there is new hazard, and there are few who do not at some unlucky time, injure their own characters by attempting to enlarge them."
  , "Samuel Johnson (<em>The Rambler</em> #21)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A system\8217s ease of use always should be a primary goal, but that ease should be based on an underlying concept that makes the use almost intuitive. Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling\8212the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration."
  , "Niklaus Wirth (<a href=\"/doc/cs/algorithm/1995-wirth.pdf#page=2\">1995</a>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:<br />Its loveliness increases; it will never<br />Pass into nothingness; but still will keep<br />A bower quiet for us, and a sleep<br />Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."
  , "John Keats (<em>Endymion</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A thinker sees his own actions as experiments & questions\8212as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him <em>answers</em> above all."
  , "Friedrich Nietzsche (<em>The Gay Science</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A third maxim may be added to the preceding pair: <em>Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain</em>. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new 'set' to the brain."
  , "William James"
  , False
  )
, ( "A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted.<br />The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.<br />The \"taken for granted\" is the test of sanity; \"what everyone knows\" is the line between us and them."
  , "Lawrence Lessig (<em>The Future of Ideas</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A transition from an author\8217s book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke."
  , "Samuel Johnson (<em>The Rambler</em> #14)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time."
  , "Charles Fort (<em>Lo!</em>, 1931)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it...<br />To be bred in a place of estimation; to see nothing low and sordid from one\8217s infancy; to be taught to respect one\8217s self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; to look early to public opinion; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse; to be enabled to draw and court the attention of the wise and learned, wherever they are to be found; to be habituated in armies to command and to obey; to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty; to be formed to the greatest degree of vigilance, foresight, and circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences; to be led to a guarded and regulated conduct, from a sense that you are considered as an instructor of your fellow-citizens in their highest concerns, and that you act as a reconciler between God and man; to be employed as an administrator of law and justice, and to be thereby amongst the first benefactors to mankind; to be a professor of high science, or of liberal and ingenious art;...to possess the virtues of diligence, order, constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated an habitual regard to communative justice: these are the circumstances of men that form what I should call a natural aristocracy, without which there is no nation."
  , "Edmund Burke"
  , False
  )
, ( "A well-laid plan is always to my mind most profitable; even if it is thwarted later, the plan was no less good, and it is only chance that has baffled the design; but if fortune favors one who has planned poorly, then he has gotten only a prize of chance, and his plan was no less bad."
  , "Artabanus (<em>Histories</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "A witty saying proves nothing." , "Voltaire" , True )
, ( "A writer\8212and, I believe, generally all persons\8212must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.<br />All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely.<br />All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
  , "Borges"
  , False
  )
, ( "Abashed the Devil stood,<br />And felt how awful goodness is, and saw<br />Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined<br />His loss; but chiefly to find here observed<br />His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed<br />Undaunted. \"If I must contend\", said he,<br />\"Best with the best, the sender, not the sent,<br />Or all at once; more glory will be won,<br />Or less be lost.\""
  , "John Milton (<em>Paradise Lost</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Absence of evidence is evidence of absence." , "" , True )
, ( "Action is transitory\8212a step, a blow,<br />The motion of a muscle\8212this way or that\8212<br />\8217Tis done, and in the after vacancy<br />We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed:<br />Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,<br />And shares the nature of infinity."
  , "William Wordsworth, <em>The Borderers</em>, Act 3 (1842)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Actually there isn\8217t a thing<br />much less any dust to wipe away.<br />Who can master this<br />doesn\8217t need to sit there stiff."
  , "Feng-kan"
  , False
  )
, ( "Add little to little and there will be a big pile."
  , "Ovid"
  , True
  )
, ( "Admirer as I think I am<br />Of stars that do not give a damn,<br />I cannot, now I see them, say<br />I missed one terribly all day.<br /><br />Were all stars to disappear or die,<br />I should learn to look at an empty sky<br />And feel its total dark sublime,<br />Though this might take me a little time."
  , "W. H. Auden (\8220The More Loving One\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "After awaking,<br />I forgot for a moment<br />I was on the road\8212<br />still feeling comfortable<br />in the wake of my dream."
  , "Sh\333tetsu (\8220Dream in a Traveler\8217s Inn\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "After every war<br />someone has to clean up.<br />Things won\8217t<br />straighten themselves up, after all.<br /><br />Someone has to push the rubble<br />to the side of the road,<br />so the corpse-filled wagons<br />can pass.<br /><br />...Those who knew<br />what was going on here<br />must make way for<br />those who know little.<br />And less than little.<br />And finally as little as nothing.<br /><br />In the grass that has overgrown<br />causes and effects,<br />someone must be stretched out<br />blade of grass in his mouth<br />gazing at the clouds."
  , "Wis\322awa Szymborska (\8220The End and the Beginning\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "After solving a problem, humanity imagines that it finds in analogous solutions the key to all problems. Every authentic solution brings in its wake a train of grotesque solutions."
  , "Nicol\225s G\243mez D\225vila"
  , False
  )
, ( "After the uprising of the 17<sup>th</sup> June<br />The Secretary of the Writers Union<br />Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee<br />Stating that the people<br />Had forfeited the confidence of the government<br />And could win it back only<br />By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier<br />In that case for the government<br />To dissolve the people<br />And elect another?"
  , "Bertolt Brecht (\8220The Solution\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Again and again, I\8217ve undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that <em>its not sucking wouldn\8217t have been a Nash equilibrium.</em>"
  , "Scott Aaronson (\8220Malthusianisms\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Again, in the early days, I was limited in computing capacity and it was clear, in my area, that a \"mathematician had no use for machines.\" But I needed more machine capacity. Every time I had to tell some scientist in some other area, \"No I can\8217t; I haven\8217t the machine capacity\", he complained. I said \"Go tell your Vice President that Hamming needs more computing capacity.\" After a while I could see what was happening up there at the top; many people said to my Vice President, \"Your man needs more computing capacity.\" I got it!<br /><br />I also did a second thing. When I loaned what little programming power we had to help in the early days of computing, I said, \"We are not getting the recognition for our programmers that they deserve. When you publish a paper you will thank that programmer or you aren\8217t getting any more help from me. That programmer is going to be thanked by name; she\8217s worked hard.\" I waited a couple of years. I then went through a year of <em>BSTJ</em> articles and counted what fraction thanked some programmer. I took it into the boss and said, \"That\8217s the central role computing is playing in Bell Labs; if the BSTJ is important, that\8217s how important computing is.\" He had to give in. You can educate your bosses."
  , "Richard Hamming (\8220You and Your Research\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Against the dark screen of night, Vimes had a vision of Ankh-Morpork.  It wasn\8217t a city, it was a <em>process</em>, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around.  People who\8217d never see it in their whole life nevertheless spent that life working for it.  Thousands and thousands of green acres were part of it, forests were part of it. It drew in and consumed...<br />...and gave back the dung from its pens, and the soot from its chimneys, and steel, and saucepans, and all the tools by which its food was made. And also clothes, and fashions, and ideas, and interesting vices, songs, and knowledge, and something which, if looked at in the right light, was called civilization. That was what civilization <em>meant</em>. It meant the city."
  , "Terry Pratchett (<em>Night Watch</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Age after age<br />the sea breeze on the beach<br />at Windblown Strand<br />has dashed sand against the shore<br />to be shattered\8212like my heart."
  , "Fujiwara no Teika"
  , False
  )
, ( "Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice,<br />The stage but echoes back the public\8217s voice;<br />The drama\8217s laws the drama\8217s patrons give,<br />For we that live to please must please to live.<br />...prompt no more the follies you decry,<br />As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die;<br />\8216Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence<br />Of rescu\8217d Nature, and reviving Sense;<br />...Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age,<br />And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage."
  , "Samuel Johnson (\8220Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Ah, loneliness:<br />I need only abandon it<br />to the pine wind<br />from the mountains by my eaves\8212<br />and it seems not to blow at all."
  , "Sh\333tetsu (\8220Pines by the Eaves\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Ah, solitude\8212<br />it is not the sort of thing<br />that has a color.<br />Mountains lined with black pine<br />on an evening in autumn."
  , "Monk Jakuren"
  , False
  )
, ( "Ah, the feel on my skin<br />of a summer robe still damp<br />from the morning dew!<br />Wait, don\8217t dry it yet\8212<br />you wind blowing low in the trees!"
  , "Sh\333tetsu"
  , False
  )
, ( "Alas, how terrible is wisdom<br />When it brings no profit to the man that\8217s wise!<br />This I knew well, but had forgotten it,<br />Else I would not have come here."
  , "Tiresias to the unrelenting Oedipus"
  , False
  )
, ( "All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed."
  , "Michel de Montaigne"
  , False
  )
, ( "All cruelty springs from weakness."
  , "Seneca the Younger (<em>De Vita Beata</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "All evidence of truth comes only from the senses."
  , "Nietzsche"
  , True
  )
, ( "All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductive logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed."
  , "Morris Raphael Cohen"
  , False
  )
, ( "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
  , "George Box (statistician)"
  , True
  )
, ( "All processes that are stable we shall predict. All processes that are unstable we shall control."
  , "John von Neumann (Dyson paraphrase)"
  , True
  )
, ( "All statistical problems are decision problems." , "" , True )
, ( "All the rains of June:<br />and one evening, secretly,<br />through the pines, the moon"
  , "Ryota"
  , True
  )
, ( "All these images<br />from a world of long ago\8212<br />of what good are they?<br />Pine winds, come: blow away<br />these unforgotten dreams."
  , "Sh\333tetsu (\8220Reminiscing\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "All things left her, all<br />But one. Her highborn courtliness<br />Accompanied her to the end,<br />Beyond the rapture and its eclipse,<br />In a way like an angel\8217s. Of Elvira<br />The first thing that I saw\8212such years ago\8212<br />Was her smile and also it was the last."
  , "Borges (\8220Elvira de Alvear\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination.<br />There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of 100 million dollars.<br />But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way\8212and that is reliability.<br />The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.<br />It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay."
  , "C. A. R. Hoare"
  , False
  )
, ( "Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?"
  , "Wittgenstein (<em>Culture and Value</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Along the pathway<br />the wind of evening<br />raises its voice.<br />In the market\8212no one<br />but the dust, piling up."
  , "Sh\333tetsu"
  , False
  )
, ( "Alongside the path<br />Fresh water flows, and<br />In the willow\8217s shade<br />A while, just a while,<br />Would I take my ease..."
  , "Saigyo"
  , False
  )
, ( "Although infinite players choose mortality, they may not know when death comes but we can always say of them that \"they die at the right time\" (Nietzsche)."
  , "James P. Carse"
  , False
  )
, ( "Amusing notion: many things that I would not want to tell anyone, I tell the public; and for my most secret knowledge and thoughts I send my most faithful friends to a bookseller\8217s shop."
  , "Montaigne"
  , False
  )
, ( "An audience, even an audience of one, is always to be treasured and respected."
  , "Adalric Brandl (\8220Uhl Eharl Khoehng\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "An economic transaction is a solved political problem...<br />Economics has gained the title Queen of the Social Sciences by choosing solved political problems as its domain."
  , "Abba Lerner (\8220The Economics and Politics of Consumer Sovereignty\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "An efficient program is an exercise in logical brinkmanship."
  , "Butler W. Lampson"
  , True
  )
, ( "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
  , "Niels Bohr"
  , True
  )
, ( "An old priest who was dying, one of the saintliest men I have ever known, one of those who had greatest reason to expect God\8217s favor, many years ago surprised me by telling me, with a little smile, that now that he was going, he wanted desperately to stay.<br /><br />\"A single memory can do it\", he said.<br /><br />And I suppose he was right. The memory of an instant&mdash;of a smile, of leaf smoke on a sharp fall day, of a golden streak across a rain-washed morning, of a small boy seated alone on the seashore solemnly building his medieval moated castles&mdash;just this one, single, final flash of memory can be enough to make us want to stay forever..."
  , "Edwin O\8217Connor (<em>The Edge of Sadness</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Analogies are like ropes; they tie things together pretty well, but you won\8217t get very far if you try to push them."
  , "Thaddeus Stout Tom Davidson"
  , False
  )
, ( "Ancient creatures died and left naught but fossil fuels, like coal and petroleum.<br />Without that sacrifice, our present energy civilization would not exist.<br />That sort of sacrifice is what is always demanded."
  , "Mikage Souji (<em>Revolutionary Girl Utena</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "And I am under accusation: That I am not up to my oeuvre,<br />That I do not demand enough from myself,<br />As I could have learned from Karl Jaspers,<br />That my scorn for the opinions of this age grows slack.<br /><br />I roll on a wave and look at white clouds.<br />...Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne.<br />So many words, so much paper, who can stand it.<br />I told you the truth about my distancing myself.<br />I\8217ve stopped worrying about my misshapen life.<br />It was no better and no worse than the usual human tragedies.<br />...You are right, Jeanne, I don\8217t know how to care about the salvation of my soul.<br />Some are called, others manage as well as they can.<br />I accept it, what has befallen me is just.<br />I don\8217t pretend to the dignity of a wise old age.<br />Untranslatable into words, I chose my home in what is now,<br />In things of this world, which exist and, for that reason, delight us:<br />Nakedness of women on the beach, coppery cones of their breasts,<br />Hibiscus, alamanda, a red lily, devouring<br />With my eyes, lips, tongue, the guava juice, the juice of la prune de Cyth\232re,<br />Rum with ice and syrup, lianas-orchids<br />In a rain forest, where trees stand on the stilts of their roots."
  , "Czes\322aw Mi\322osz (\8220A Conversation With Jeanne\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "And as one sees most fearful things<br />In the crystal of a dream,<br />We saw the greasy hempen rope<br />Hooked to the blackened beam,<br />And heard the prayer the hangman\8217s snare<br />Strangled into a scream.<br /><br />And all the woe that moved him so<br />That he gave that bitter cry,<br />And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,<br />None knew so well as I:<br />For he who live more lives than one<br />More deaths than one must die."
  , "Oscar Wilde"
  , False
  )
, ( "And don\8217t tell me God works in mysterious ways\8230Why in the world did He ever create pain?\8230Oh, He was really being charitable to us when He gave us pain! Why couldn\8217t He have used a doorbell instead to notify us, or one of His celestial choirs? Or a system of blue-and-red neon tubes right out of the middle of each person\8217s forehead. Any jukebox manufacturer worth his salt could have done that. Why couldn\8217t He?\8230What a colossal, immortal blunderer!"
  , "Captain Yossarian, <em>Catch-22</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "And from my pillow, looking forth by light<br />Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold<br />The antechapel where the statue stood<br />Of Newton with his prism and silent face,<br />The marble index of a mind for ever<br />Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone."
  , "William Wordsworth (<em>The Prelude</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "And if I\8217m so happy, happy and content, it\8217s because my memory embellishes everything. It erases ugly things and gives such a sweet and beautiful (and also a bit melancholy) aspect to the smallest incidents of my life, even the most ordinary; that life itself is an enchantment: All you need to do is remember, instead of paying attention 'as you go along.'"
  , "Jacques Henri Lartique"
  , False
  )
, ( "And so I have created something more than a poetry-writing AI program. I have created a voice for the unknown human who hides within the binary. I have created a writer, a sculptor, an artist. And this writer will be able to create worlds, to give life to emotion, to create character. I will not see it myself. But some other human will, and so I will be able to create a poet greater than any I have ever encountered."
  , "GPT-3"
  , False
  )
, ( "And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.<br />Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create  a tiger.<br /><br />Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.<br />The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird."
  , "Borges (\8220Dreamtigers\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "And there never was a time, I believe, when those who read at all, read so many more books by living authors than books by dead authors; there never was a time so completely parochial, so shut off from the past...Individualistic democracy has come to high tide: and it is more difficult today to be an individual than it ever was before."
  , "T. S. Eliot"
  , False
  )
, ( "And what of the dead? I own that I thought of myself, at times, almost as dead. Are they not locked below ground in chambers smaller than mine was, in their millions of millions? There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most learned men\8212all are dead. Their bodies repose in caskets, in sarcophagi, beneath arches of rude stone, everywhere under the earth. Their spirits haunt our minds, ears pressed to the bones of our foreheads. Who can say how intently they listen as we speak, or for what word?"
  , "Gene Wolfe (<em>Citadel of the Autarch</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every 6 months."
  , "Oscar Wilde"
  , False
  )
, ( "Animals & small children are not acquainted with the problems of philosophy."
  , "Wittgenstein"
  , True
  )
, ( "Another personality defect is ego assertion...I was still dressing [then] in western clothes, big slash pockets, a bolo and all those things. I vaguely noticed that I was not getting as good service as other people. So I set out to measure. You came in and you waited for your turn; I felt I was not getting a fair deal. I said to myself, \"Why? No Vice President at IBM said, `Give Hamming a bad time'. It is the secretaries at the bottom who are doing this. When a slot appears, they\8217ll rush to find someone to slip in, but they go out and find somebody else. Now, why? I haven\8217t mistreated them.\" Answer, I wasn\8217t dressing the way they felt somebody in that situation should. It came down to just that\8212I wasn\8217t dressing properly. I had to make the decision\8212was I going to assert my ego and dress the way I wanted to and have it steadily drain my effort from my professional life, or was I going to appear to conform better? I decided I would make an effort to appear to conform properly. The moment I did, I got much better service. And now, as an old colorful character, I get better service than other people.<br />John Tukey...dressed very casually. He would go into an important office and it would take a long time before the other fellow realized that this is a first-class man and he had better listen. For a long time John has had to overcome this kind of hostility. It\8217s wasted effort! I didn\8217t say you should conform; I said \"The appearance of conforming gets you a long way.\" If you chose to assert your ego in any number of ways, \"I am going to do it my way\", you pay a small steady price throughout the whole of your professional career. And this, over a whole lifetime, adds up to an enormous amount of needless trouble.<br />When they moved the library...a friend of mine put in a request for a bicycle. Well, the organization was not dumb. They waited awhile and sent back a map of the grounds saying, \"Will you please indicate on this map what paths you are going to take so we can get an insurance policy covering you.\" A few more weeks went by. They then asked, \"Where are you going to store the bicycle and how will it be locked so we can do so and so.\" He finally realized that of course he was going to be red-taped to death so he gave in. He rose to be the President of Bell Laboratories.<br />...Many a second-rate fellow gets caught up in some little twitting of the system, and carries it through to warfare. He expends his energy in a foolish project. Now you are going to tell me that somebody has to change the system. I agree; somebody has to. Which do you want to be? The person who changes the system or the person who does first-class science? Which person is it that you want to be? Be clear, when you fight the system and struggle with it, what you are doing, how far to go out of amusement, and how much to waste your effort fighting the system."
  , "Richard Hamming (\8220You and Your Research\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Another successful defense of society against the culture within itself is to give artists a place by regarding them as the producers of property, thus elevating the value of consuming or owning art. It is notable that very large collections of art...are the work of the very rich or of societies during strongly nationalistic periods...<br />Such museums are not designed to protect the art from people, but to protect the people from art."
  , "James Carse"
  , False
  )
, ( "Another year gone by<br />And still no spring warms my heart.<br />It\8217s nothing to me<br />But now I am accustomed<br />To stare at the sky at dawn."
  , "Fujiwara no Teika"
  , False
  )
, ( "Ants are a curious race;<br />One crossing with hurried tread<br />The body of one of their dead<br />Isn\8217t given a moment\8217s arrest --<br />Seems not even impressed.<br />But he no doubt reports to any<br />With whom he crosses antennae,<br />And they no doubt report<br />To the higher up at court.<br />Then word goes forth in Formic:<br />\"Death\8217s come to Jerry McCormic,<br />Our selfless forager Jerry.<br />Will the special Janizary<br />Whose office it is to bury<br />The dead of the commissary<br />Go bring him home to his people.<br />Lay him in state on a sepal.<br />Wrap him for shroud in a petal.<br />Embalm him with ichor of nettle.<br />This is the word of your Queen.\""
  , "Robert Frost (\8220Departmental\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools...Ignorance is invisible."
  , "R. Scott Bakker (<em>The White Luck Warrior</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
  , "John von Neumann"
  , True
  )
, ( "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection.<br />But that usually will create another problem."
  , "David Wheeler"
  , False
  )
, ( "Any simple major enhancement to human intelligence is a net evolutionary disadvantage."
  , "Eliezer Yudkowsky"
  , True
  )
, ( "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
  , "Greenspun\8217s Tenth Law"
  , False
  )
, ( "Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn\8217t the work he is supposed to be doing."
  , "Robert Benchley"
  , True
  )
, ( "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
  , "Publilius Syrus (#358)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat."
  , "Robert Heinlein (<em>The Cat Who Walks Through Walls</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Anything can be an instrument, Chigurh said. Small things. Things you wouldn\8217t even notice. They pass from hand to hand. People don\8217t pay attention. And then one day there\8217s an accounting. And after that nothing is the same. Well, you say. It\8217s just a coin. For instance. Nothing special there. What could that be an instrument of? You see the problem. To separate the act from the thing. As if the parts of some moment in history might be interchangeable with the parts of some other moment. How could that be? Well, it\8217s just a coin. Yes. That\8217s true. Is it?<br /><br />...What\8217s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"
  , "Cormac McCarthy (<em>No Country for Old Men</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Anything you post on the internet will be there as long as it\8217s embarrassing and gone as soon as it would be useful."
  , "taejo"
  , False
  )
, ( "Apart from which this kind of obsession with the liberal arts turns people into pedantic, irritating, tactless, self-satisfied bores, not learning what they need simply because they spend their time learning things they will never need. The scholar Didymus wrote four thousand works: I should feel sorry for him if he had merely read so many useless works. In these works he discusses such questions as Homer\8217s origin, who was Aeneas\8217 real mother, whether Anacreon\8217s manner of life was more that of a lecher or that of a drunkard, whether Sappho slept with anyone who asked her, and other things that would be better unlearned if one actually knew them!<br />Don\8217t you go and tell me now that life is long enough for this sort of thing!"
  , "Seneca"
  , False
  )
, ( "Aristocracies do not last. Whatever the causes, it is an incontestable fact that after a certain length of time they pass away. History is a graveyard of aristocracies...They decay not in numbers only. They decay also in quality, in the sense that they lose their vigor...The governing class is restored not only in numbers, but\8212and that is the more important thing\8212in quality, by families rising from the lower classes...If human aristocracies were like thoroughbreds among animals, which reproduce themselves over long periods of time with approximately the same traits, the history of the human race would be something altogether different from the history we know."
  , "Vilfredo Pareto"
  , False
  )
, ( "Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife\8212chopping off what\8217s incomplete and saying: \"Now it\8217s complete because it\8217s ended here.\""
  , "Princess Irulan (<em>Dune</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration\8230shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects\8230All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering."
  , "Nietzsche"
  , False
  )
, ( "As Borges himself showed us in so many stories\8212\"The Aleph\", \"The Garden of Forking Paths\", \"The Gift\", \"Blue Tigers\", \"Shakespeare\8217s Memory\"\8212a blessing is always a mixed blessing.<br />As Borges noted sadly, he inherited a library, and blindness; we who study Borges inherit great sight, yet the rest of the library somehow fades."
  , "Andrew Hurley (\8220What I Lost When I Translated Jorge Luis Borges\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "As I listen, bells<br />tolling over Hatsu River<br />fade off, one by one\8212<br />falling onto my sleeves,<br />becoming the capital."
  , "Sh\333tetsu (\8220Love related to Bells\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "As I look about\8212<br />What need is there for cherry flowers<br />Or crimson leaves?<br />The inlet with its grass-thatched huts<br />Clustered in the growing autumn dusk."
  , "Fujiwara no Teika"
  , False
  )
, ( "As a mathematical discipline travels far from its empirical source, or still more, if it is a second or third generation only indirectly inspired by ideas coming from 'reality', it is beset with very grave dangers. It becomes more and more purely aestheticizing, more and more purely <em>l\8217art pour l\8217art</em>. This need not be bad, if the field is surrounded by correlated subjects, which still have closer empirical connections, or if the discipline is under the influence of men with an exceptionally well-developed taste.<br />But there is a grave danger that the subject will develop along the line of least resistance, that the stream, so far from its source, will separate into a multitude of insignificant branches, and that the discipline will become a disorganized mass of details and complexities. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much 'abstract' inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration."
  , "John von Neumann"
  , False
  )
, ( "As a rule, people judged themselves according to their intentions and others according to results. In study after study, individuals ranked themselves as more charitable, more compassionate, more conscientious than others, not because they in fact were\8212but because they wanted to be these things and were almost entirely blind to the fact that others wanted the same. Intentions were all important when it came to self-judgement, and pretty much irrelevant when it came to judging others. The only exceptions, it turned out, were loved ones.<br />That was what it meant to be a 'significant' other: to be included in the circle of delusions that everyone used to exempt themselves."
  , "Scott Bakker (<em>Neuropath</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "As if to say\8212<br />'Isn\8217t it true for men, as well,<br />the more the words,<br />the less of value?'\8212<br />the cuckoo does not call again."
  , "Sh\333tetsu (\8220One Call from a Cuckoo\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "As long as the AI [OA5] can explore, it will learn, given enough time...We just kept waiting for the magic to run out. We kept waiting to hit a wall, and we never seemed to hit a wall."
  , "Greg Brockman"
  , False
  )
, ( "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn\8217t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
  , "Maurice Wilkes"
  , False
  )
, ( "As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers."
  , "William Blake (\8220Proverbs of Hell\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "As the sound of drum calls for my life,<br />I turn my head where sun is about to set.<br />There is no inn on the way to underworld.<br />And at whose house shall I sleep tonight?"
  , "Seong Sam-mun"
  , False
  )
, ( "As we know,<br />There are known knowns.<br />There are things we know we know.<br />We also know<br />There are known unknowns.<br />That is to say<br />We know there are some things<br />We do not know.<br />But there are also unknown unknowns,<br />The ones we don\8217t know<br />We don\8217t know."
  , "Donald Rumsfeld"
  , False
  )
, ( "At death, you break up: the bits that were you<br />Start speeding away from each other for ever<br />With no one to see. It\8217s only oblivion, true<br />We had it before, but then it was going to end<br />And was all the time merging with a unique endeavour<br />To bring to bloom the million-petaled flower<br />Of being here. Next time you can\8217t pretend<br />There\8217ll be anything else."
  , "Philip Larkin (\8220The Old Fools\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "At the dark doorways<br />they dinned and hammered;<br />there was clang of swords<br />and crash of axes.<br />The smiths of battle<br />smote the anvils;<br />sparked and splintered<br />spears and helmets.<br /><br />In they hacked them,<br />out they hurled them,<br />bears assailing,<br />boars defending.<br />Stones and stairways<br />streamed and darkened;<br />day came dimly\8212the doors were held."
  , "J. R. R. Tolkien (<em>The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "At the round earth\8217s imagin\8217d corners, blow<br />Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise<br />From death, you numberless infinities<br />Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go."
  , "John Donne (\"Holy Sonnets\" #7)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Attacks only get better." , "" , True )
, ( "Attempting to prove any nontrivial theorem about your program will expose lots of bugs: The particular choice of theorem makes little difference!"
  , "Benjamin Pierce"
  , False
  )
, ( "Authors write things down so as to have to think of them less."
  , "Alain de Botton"
  , True
  )
, ( "Authors write things down to forget them." , "" , True )
, ( "Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.<br />From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk:<br />then time returns to the shell.<br /><br />...We stand by the window embracing, and people look<br />up from the street:<br />it is time they knew!<br />It is time the stone made an effort to flower,<br />time unrest had a beating heart.<br />It is time it were time.<br />It is time."
  , "Paul Celan (\8220Corona\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Autumn leaves floating<br />On the white-crested waters:<br />I thought they might be<br />Boats like those fishermen ply,<br />Adrift on the river waves."
  , "Fujiwara no Okikaze"
  , False
  )
, ( "Autumn wind:<br />the mountain\8217s shadow<br />quivers."
  , "Kobayashi Issa (<em>Japanese Death Poems</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Bandwidth problems can be cured with money.<br />Latency problems are harder because the speed of light is fixed\8212you can\8217t bribe God."
  , "David Clark"
  , False
  )
, ( "Bats in a birdless country,<br />Sosuke put his hoe on his shoulder,<br />Kosuke took his net in hand,<br />Sosuke to the mountain, Kosuke to the sea<br /><br />Cucumber flowers that bloom in the twilight,<br />cicadas singing in the leaves of a distant mulberry,<br />mountain paths cool with dew?<br />Kosuke by the sea dreamed of them with envy<br /><br />Tasty beach grasses on dunes near and far,<br />boats drying by the distant summer tide,<br />the voice of the sea resounding in the eelgrass?<br />Sosuke on the mountain dreamed of them with envy<br /><br />And the world changed, as change it will?<br />Kosuke put the hoe on his shoulder,<br />Sosuke took the net in hand,<br />now Kosuke to the mountain, Sosuke to the sea<br /><br />Beginning in mist, ending in frost,<br />springs and autumns passed swiftly by,<br />and hope was like the bloom on the grass,<br />a thing buried in sand and lost from sight<br /><br />What becomes of the blue clouds of ambition<br />that for a moment swell up in the breast?<br />Not a trace left to be seen<br />of Sosuke\8217s dreams, Kosuke\8217s dreams<br /><br />Once again the lilies flower,<br />once again the plums are green,<br />and in the deep blue shade of the trees,<br />Sosuke and Kosuke come home perplexed."
  , "Shimazaki Toson (\8220Birdless Country\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
  , "Gustave Flaubert"
  , False
  )
, ( "Be sure to answer the foolish arguments of fools, or they will become wise in their own estimation."
  , "<em>Book of Proverbs</em> (26:5)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated.<br />Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity."
  , "David Gelernter"
  , False
  )
, ( "Behind a remarkable scholar one often finds a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist, often, a remarkable man."
  , "Friedrich Nietzsche (<em>Beyond Good & Evil</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Behind everything some further thing is found, forever; thus the tree behind the bird, stone beneath soil, the Sun behind Earth. Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
  , "Loyal to the Group of Seventeen (Gene Wolfe)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Beliefs are for actions." , "" , True )
, ( "Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine,<br />No friends at hand, so I poured alone;<br />I raised my cup to invite the moon,<br />Turned to my shadow, and we became three.<br />Now the moon had never learned about my drinking,<br />And my shadow had merely followed my form,<br />But I quickly made friends with the moon and my shadow;<br />To find pleasure in life, make the most of the spring.<br /><br />Whenever I sang, the moon swayed with me;<br />Whenever I danced, my shadow went wild.<br />Drinking, we shared our enjoyment together;<br />Drunk, then each went off on his own.<br />But forever agreed on dispassionate revels,<br />We promised to meet in the far Milky Way."
  , "Li Bai (\8220Drinking Alone in the Moonlight\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Besides myself<br />there is no other god!<br />For the gods themselves know<br />that it is in men\8217s hearts<br />that their own gods are found."
  , "Sh\333tetsu"
  , False
  )
, ( "Besides, your perceptions are fine, it\8217s your opinions that are worthless and misleading."
  , "Snowyowl"
  , True
  )
, ( "Better stolen well than thought out poorly."
  , "Dutch saying"
  , True
  )
, ( "Better to run into accusations of hypocrisy down the line than to start with no high ideals whatsoever."
  , "Alain de Botton"
  , False
  )
, ( "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
  , "Donald Knuth"
  , True
  )
, ( "Big questions of small children poignant: makes us realise how much we get by without understanding."
  , "Alain de Botton"
  , True
  )
, ( "Black milk of daybreak we drink it at nightfall<br />we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night<br />drink it and drink it<br />we are digging a grave in the sky it is ample to lie there<br />A man in the house he plays with the serpents he writes<br />he writes when the night falls to Germany your golden<br />hair Margarete<br />he writes it and walks from the house the stars glitter<br />he whistles his dogs up<br />he whistles his Jews out and orders a grave to be dug in<br />the earth<br />he commands us strike up for the dance<br />Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night<br />we drink in the mornings at noon we drink you at<br /> nightfall<br />drink you and drink you<br />A man in the house he plays with the serpents he writes<br />he writes when the night falls to Germany your golden<br />hair Margarete<br />Your ashen hair Shulamith we are digging a grave in the<br />sky it is ample to lie there..."
  , "Paul Celan (\8220Fugue of Death\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But I had become aware, even so early as during my college life, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible, can be imagined, which has not been maintained by some on of the philosophers; and afterwards in the course of my travels I remarked that all those whose opinions are decidedly repugnant to ours are not in that account barbarians and savages, but on the contrary that many of these nations make an equally good, if not better, use of their reason than we do."
  , "Rene Descartes"
  , False
  )
, ( "But I should say at once that my defense of mathematics will be a defense of myself, and that my apology is bound to be to some extent egotistical. I should not think it worth while to apologize for my subject if I regarded myself as one of its failures. Some egotism of this sort is inevitable, and I do not feel that it really needs justification. Good work is not done by \"humble\" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking \"Is what I do worth while?\" and \"Am I the right person to do it?\" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly."
  , "G. H. Hardy (<em>A Mathematician\8217s Apology</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But as for certain truth, no man has known it,<br />Nor will he know it; neither of the gods<br />Nor yet of all things of which I speak.<br />And even if perchance he were to utter<br />The perfect truth, he would himself not know it;<br />for all is but a woven web of lies."
  , "Xenophanes"
  , False
  )
, ( "But at the same time the advent of modern technology has brought with it a debasement of the color currency. Today almost every object that rolls off the factory production line, from motor cars to pencils, is given a distinctive color\8212and for the most part these colors are meaningless. As I look around the room I\8217m working in, man-made color shouts back at me from every surface: books, cushions, a rug on the floor, a coffee-cup, a box of staples\8212bright blues, reds, yellows greens. There is as much color here as in any tropical forest. Yet while almost every color in the forest would be meaningful, here in my study almost nothing is. Color anarchy has taken over.<br />The indiscriminate use of color has no doubt dulled modern humans\8217 biological response to it. From the first moment a baby is given a string of multi-colored\8212but otherwise identical\8212beads to play with, she is unwittingly being taught to ignore color as a signal."
  , "Nicholas Humphrey (\8220The Color Currency of Nature\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But if I knew nothing of atoms, of what they were,<br />Still from the very ways of the heavens, from many<br />Other things I could name, I\8217d dare to assert<br />And prove that not for us and not by gods<br />Was this world made. There\8217s too much wrong with it!"
  , "Lucretius"
  , False
  )
, ( "But it [<em>Wuthering Heights</em>] is a fiend of a book\8212an incredible monster, combining all the stronger female tendencies from Mrs. Browning to Mrs. Brownrigg. The action is laid in hell,\8212only it seems places and people have English names there."
  , "Dante Gabriel Rossetti"
  , False
  )
, ( "But it is sad to lose touch with whole branches of physics, to see scientists cut off from each other. Dispersion theorists do not know axiomatic field theory; cosmologists do not know nuclear physics. Quantum mechanics is hard to explain to a chemist...and yet the best theoretical chemists really ought to know quantum mechanics.<br /><br />Specialization of science also robbed us of much of our passion. We wanted to grasp science whole, but by then the whole was something far too vast and complex to master. Only rarely could we ask the deep questions that had first drawn us to science."
  , "Eugene P. Wigner (<em>Recollections</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But it\8217s better for us not to know the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so very good at one particular thing...the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up with bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider closely the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews or to consider what impoverishments in one\8217s mental life would allow people actually to think the way great athletes seem to think. Note the way 'up close and personal' profiles of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of a rounded human life--outside interests and activities, values beyond the sport. We ignore what\8217s obvious, that most of this straining is farce.<br />It\8217s farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one area of excellence. An ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a child\8217s world, is very small...<br />[Tennis player Michael] Joyce is, in other words, a complete man, though in a grotesquely limited way...Already, for Joyce, at 22, it\8217s too late for anything else; he\8217s invested too much, is in too deep.<br />I think he\8217s both lucky and unlucky. He will say he is happy and mean it. Wish him well."
  , "David Foster Wallace (\8220The String Theory\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But that was then, a long time gone. Now we have something different: we have \"anything goes\" without the spirit. \"Transgression\", \"subversion\", \"deconstruction\" are praise words bestowed as solemnly as \"structure\" and \"order\" once were, little gold stars awarded to rappers and television comics.<br />Cakes on rakes are everywhere. A million cats cavort frantically for our attention. Even the fish has been co-opted (though what choice did he have?). \"Enjoy!\" cries the fish. \"Consume! Everything will be fine when your mother gets home.\"<br />But the fish is whistling into the wind. The mother has left, and she\8217s never coming back. It\8217s just us and that goddamn cat."
  , "Louis Menand (\8220Cat People\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But the bearded bloke had shot his bolt. He stood there, licked at last; and, watching him closely, I could see that he was now at the crossroads...It was a dashed tricky thing, of course, to have to decide on the spur of the moment. I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven\8217t the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right. On the other hand, it may not be all right. And pretty silly a chap would feel, no doubt, if, having split the atom, he suddenly found the house going up in smoke and himself torn limb from limb."
  , "P. G. Wodehouse, <em>Right Ho, Jeeves</em> (1934)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But the player likewise is a prisoner<br />(The maxim is Omar\8217s) on another board<br />Of dead-black nights, and of pure-white days."
  , "Borges (\8220The Game of Chess\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But then the rigorous logic of the matter is not plain! Well, what of that? Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion? No, not if I am satisfied with the result."
  , "Oliver Heaviside"
  , False
  )
, ( "But there is one reason to suspect that an appropriate increase in size, together with other comparatively minor changes in structure, might lead to a large increase in intelligence. The evolution of modern man from non-tool-making ancestors has presumably been associated with and dependent on a large increase in intelligence, but has been completed in what is on an evolutionary scale a rather short time\8212at most a few million years. This suggests that the transformation which provided the required increase in intelligence may have been growth in size with relatively little increase in structural complexity\8212there was insufficient time for natural selection to do more...To ask oneself the consequence of building such an intelligence is a little like asking an Australopithecine what kind of questions Newton would ask himself and what answers he would give...I suspect that if our species survives, someone will try it and see."
  , "John Maynard Smith"
  , False
  )
, ( "But there\8217s a big difference between \"impossible\" and \"hard to imagine\". The first is about <em>it</em>; the second is about <em>you</em>!"
  , "Marvin Minsky"
  , False
  )
, ( "But to come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two very different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
  , "Alfred North Whitehead"
  , False
  )
, ( "But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and its values."
  , "J. Robert Oppenheimer (1945)"
  , False
  )
, ( "But where shall wisdom be found?<br />And where is the place of understanding?<br />Man knoweth not the price thereof;<br />neither is it found in the land of the living<br />...for the price of wisdom is above rubies."
  , "<em>Book of Job</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "But, the hard part comes after you conquer the world. What kind of world are you thinking of creating?"
  , "Johan Liebert (<em>Monster</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot hot, cold cold, and color color; but in truth there is only atoms and the void."
  , "Democritus"
  , False
  )
, ( "By custom, sweet; by custom, bitter; by custom, hot; by custom, cold; by custom, color; but in reality, atoms & void."
  , "Democritus"
  , False
  )
, ( "By the middle of the seventeenth century it had come to be understood that the world was enclosed in a sea of air, much as the greater part of it was covered by water. A scientist of the period, Francesco Lana, contended that a lighter-than-air ship could float upon this sea, and he suggested how such a ship might be built. He was unable to put his invention to a practical test, but he saw only one reason why it might not work:<br /><br />  \". . . that God will never suffer this Invention to take effect, because of the many consequencies which may disturb the Civil Government of men. For who sees not, that no City can be secure against attack, since our Ship may at any time be placed directly over it, and descending down may discharge Souldiers; the same would happen to private Houses, and Ships on the Sea: for our Ship descending out of the Air to the sails of Sea-Ships, it may cut their Ropes, yea without descending by casting Grapples it may over-set them, kill their men, burn their Ships by artificial Fire works and Fire-balls. And this they may do not only to Ships but to great Buildings, Castles, Cities, with such security that they which cast these things down from a height out of Gun-shot, cannot on the other side be offended by those below.\"<br /><br />Lana\8217s reservation was groundless. He had predicted modern air warfare in surprisingly accurate detail\8212with its paratroopers and its strafing and bombing. Contrary to his expectation, God has suffered his invention to take effect. And so has Man."
  , "B. F. Skinner (\8220Science and Human Behavior\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "By this, my sonne, be admonished: of making many bookes there is no end, and much studie is a wearinesse of the flesh."
  , "Qoholet"
  , False
  )
, ( "Calmly we walk through this April\8217s day,<br />Metropolitan poetry here and there,<br />In the park sit pauper and <em>rentier</em>,<br />The screaming children, the motor-car<br />Fugitive about us, running away,<br />Between the worker and the millionaire<br />Number provides all distances,<br />It is Nineteen Thirty-Seven now,<br />Many great dears are taken away,<br />What will become of you and me<br />(This is the school in which we learn ...)<br />Besides the photo and the memory?<br />(... that time is the fire in which we burn.)<br />The great globe reels in the solar fire,<br />Spinning the trivial and unique away.<br />(How all things flash! How all things flare!)<br />...Time is the school in which we learn<br />Time is the fire in which we burn...<br />Avid its rush, that reeling blaze!<br />Where is my father and Eleanor?<br />Not where are they now, dead seven years,<br />But what they were then?<br />No more? No more?<br />From Nineteen-Fourteen to the present day,<br />Bert Spira and Rhoda consume, consume<br />Not where they are now (where are they now?)<br />But what they were then, both beautiful;<br /><br />Each minute bursts in the burning room,<br />The great globe reels in the solar fire,<br />Spinning the trivial and unique away.<br />(How all things flash! How all things flare!)<br />What am I now that I was then?<br />May memory restore again and again<br />The smallest color of the smallest day:<br />Time is the school in which we learn,<br />Time is the fire in which we burn."
  , "Delmore Schwartz (\8220Calmly We Walk through This April\8217s Day\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Cat Two remained sleek and slim (a picky eater), and wildly active, regularly racing through the house. She is also remarkably delicate\8212when she wants me to caress her, she extends a tentative paw in my direction and looks imploringly into my eyes\8212and a terrible coward as well: no sooner does someone come into the apartment (especially if that someone is a man) than she\8217s under the bed or up on top of the highest kitchen cabinet. Nevertheless, she rules my affections because when she stretches herself along the wall or the window, her body resembles one long exquisite column of gray and black velvet, and invariably, the sight of her takes my breath away. I remember thinking, the first time I saw her thus elongated: \8220Now I understand the power of a beautiful woman. One forgives her <em>everything</em>!\8221"
  , "Vivian Gornick"
  , False
  )
, ( "Cattle die, kinsmen die;<br />one day, you die too\8212<br />but words of praise willn\8217t perish<br />when a man wins fair fame."
  , "<em>H\225vam\225l</em>"
  , False
  )
, ( "Causes are differences which make a difference." , "" , True )
, ( "Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men. But then, that acumen has been concentrated primarily upon the practical business of life. If a distinction works well for practical purposes in ordinary life (no mean feat, for even ordinary life is full of hard cases), then there is sure to be something in it, it will not mark nothing: yet this is likely enough to be not the best way of arranging things if our interests are more extensive or intellectual than the ordinary. And again, that experience has been derived only from the sources available to ordinary men throughout most of civilised history: it has not been fed from the resources of the microscope and its successors. And it must be added too, that superstition and error and fantasy of all kinds do become incorporated in ordinary language and even sometimes stand up to the survival test (only, when they do, why should we not detect it?). Certainly, then, ordinary language is <em>not</em> the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded. Only remember, it <em>is</em> the <em>first</em> word."
  , "J. L. Austin (\8220A Plea for Excuses: The Presidential Address\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Charles II is said to have himself toyed with the philosophers, asking them to explain why a fish weighs more after it has died. Upon receiving various ingenious answers, he pointed out that in fact a dead fish does not weigh anything more."
  , "Robert Pasnau"
  , False
  )
, ( "Coincidences...are the worst enemies of the truth."
  , "Gaston Leroux"
  , True
  )
, ( "Commoditize your complement."
  , "Joel Spolsky (paraphrase)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Consequentialism: The belief that doing the right thing makes the world a better place."
  , "DanielLC"
  , True
  )
, ( "Consequently, it is soon recognised that they write for the sake of filling up the paper, and this is the case sometimes with the best authors...As soon as this is perceived the book should be thrown away, for time is precious. As a matter of fact, the author is cheating the reader as soon as he writes for the sake of filling up paper; because his pretext for writing is that he has something to impart...It is only the man who writes absolutely for the sake of the subject that writes anything worth writing. What an inestimable advantage it would be, if, in every branch of literature, there existed only a few but excellent books!"
  , "Arthur Schopenhauer (\8220On Authorship and Style\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Considering that, all hatred driven hence,<br />The soul recovers radical innocence<br />And learns at last that it is self-delighting,<br />Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,<br />And that its own sweet will is Heaven\8217s will;<br />She can, though every face should scowl<br />And every windy quarter howl<br />Or every bellows burst, be happy still."
  , "William Butler Yeats (\8220A Prayer for my Daughter\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Correlation \8800 causation." , "" , True )
, ( "Cross, lasso, and arrow\8212former tools of men, debased or exalted now to the status of symbols.<br />Why should I marvel at them, when there is not a single thing on earth that oblivion does not erase or memory change, and when no one knows into what images he himself will be transmuted by the future."
  , "Borges (\8220Mutations\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
  , "Lillian Hellman"
  , True
  )
, ( "Day ends, market closes up or down, reporter looks for good or bad news respectively, and writes that the market was up on news of Intel\8217s earnings, or down on fears of instability in the Middle East.<br />Suppose we could somehow feed these reporters false information about market closes, but give them all the other news intact. Does anyone believe they would notice the anomaly, and not simply write that stocks were up (or down) on whatever good (or bad) news there was that day? That they would say, hey, wait a minute, how can stocks be up with all this unrest in the Middle East?"
  , "Paul Graham"
  , False
  )
, ( "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.<br />Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
  , "Brian W. Kernighan"
  , False
  )
, ( "Delicacy of taste is as much to be desired and cultivated as delicacy of passion is to be lamented, and to be remedied, if possible. The good or ill accidents of life are very little at our disposal; but we are pretty much masters what books we shall read, what diversions we shall partake of, and what company we shall keep...When a man is possessed of that talent, he is more happy by what pleases his taste, than by what gratifies his appetites, and receives more enjoyment from a poem or a piece of reasoning than the most expensive luxury can afford."
  , "David Hume (Essay I: \"Of The Delicacy Of Taste And Passion\")"
  , False
  )
, ( "Deprivation seems a strange sort of gift. I find food in a couple hours of fishing each day, and I seek shelter in a rubber tent. How unnecessarily complicated my past life seems. For the first time, I clearly see a vast difference between human needs and human wants. Before this voyage, I always had what I needed\8212food, shelter, clothing, and companionship\8212yet I was often dissatisfied when I didn\8217t get everything I wanted, when people didn\8217t meet my expectations, when a goal was thwarted, or when I couldn\8217t acquire some material goody. My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness."
  , "Steven Callahan (<em>Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Did I Cry,<br /><em>why?</em> Many times. To no answer<br />But the ungentle angels. Finally<br />I understood; and some time later,<br />Was smelted of my crimes. My soul<br />Was good silver, thinner than paper,<br />Stamp-small; such remained; such<br />Big angels brought before the Lord.<br />Who spoke formalities, and sent me<br />Back to the one hell, this earth,<br />Where it is summer always, where men<br />Are animals, where I whisper<br />Like a leaf in the perfect breeze."
  , "Mencius Moldbug (\8220Hanged in the Lovely\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Disagree and commit" , "Jeff Bezos" , True )
, ( "Disastrous results are to be expected not merely in the world of fairy tales but in the real world wherever two agencies essentially foreign to each other are coupled in the attempt to achieve a common purpose. If the communication between these two agencies as to the nature of this purpose is incomplete, it must only be expected that the results of this cooperation will be unsatisfactory. If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot efficiently interfere once we have started it, because the action is so fast and irrevocable that we have not the data to intervene before the action is complete, then we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire and not merely a colorful imitation of it."
  , "Norbert Wiener (1960)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the old masters.<br />Seek what they sought."
  , "Bash\333"
  , True
  )
, ( "Do not summon up that which you cannot put down."
  , ""
  , True
  )
, ( "Do technology and economic growth create problems? Certainly. But as Maurice Chevalier said about the disadvantages of growing old, consider the alternative...if you chose to live in Renaissance Florence you would not be able to enjoy Cezanne and Picasso. In Johnson\8217s London, you would not be able to listen to Beethoven or Brahms. In <em>La Belle Epoque</em>, you would not be able to read Joyce or Faulkner. To live in today\8217s world is not only to have access to all the best that has come before, but also to have a breadth and ease of access that is comparably greater than that enjoyed even by our parents, let alone earlier generations."
  , "Charles Murray (<em>Human Accomplishment</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Do the smallest easiest thing that will tell you something. You will learn more from it than you expect."
  , "Seth Roberts"
  , False
  )
, ( "Does not a white bird<br />Feel within her heart forlorn?<br />The blue of the sky<br />The blue of the sea. Neither<br />Stains her, between them she floats."
  , "Wakayama Bokusui"
  , False
  )
, ( "Don\8217t answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are."
  , "<em>Book of Proverbs</em> (26:4)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Don\8217t let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
  , ""
  , True
  )
, ( "Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills."
  , "R. Scott Bakker (<em>The Thousandfold Thought</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Down from the peak<br />came a bundle of firewood,<br />where (for a moment)<br />I saw light from the evening sun\8212<br />hauled down on the woodman\8217s back."
  , "Sh\333tetsu (\8220Sunset over a Woodcutter\8217s back\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "During World War II, von Neumann was working with great enthusiasm as a consultant to Los Alamos on the design of the atomic bomb. But even then, he understood that nuclear energy was not the main theme in man\8217s future.</p> <p>In 1946, he happened to meet his old friend Gleb Wataghin who had spent the war years in Brazil. \8220Hello Johnny\8221, said Wataghin, \8220I suppose you are not interested in mathematics anymore. I hear you are now thinking about nothing but bombs.\8221 \8220That is quite wrong\8221, said von Neumann, \8220I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.\8221"
  , "Dyson 1977"
  , False
  )
, ( "Dying is easy; comedy is hard." , "Sir Donald Wolfit" , True )
, ( "Earth and metal...<br />although my breathing ceases<br />time and tide go on."
  , "Atsujin"
  , True
  )
, ( "Eating too is a fine thing, though it makes difficulties (do not laugh; economy and original sin may in fact be inseparable): and there is the pleasure at the conclusion of effort, the best of all delights, as the swimmer returned to the sunlight, his being glowing in the warmth responsive to the shocking chill of the waters (surrounded by them, he understood his body). Or the pleasure of the idle who, prone, full-length, made almost unknowingly a few exact perceptions, especially of those who hurry. And the satisfaction of the guilty (thus to have an identity not dissipated by their weakness); the delight of the famous, their self-regard coming from the outside; the joy of narration, thus to invent and, inventing, understand; the sweetness of the musician, from thunder and whisper tone\8217s moving constellations; and also the pleasure of small pains, the sweetness of anger, as Homer observes; the delight of the game (from out of the scrimmage came the tall and plunging figure and ran to a touchdown!); the pleasure of the task, the pleasure of the opus (the span, the parts, the detail, the conclusion); the delight, clear as fresh water, of theory and knowing (O lucid mathematics!). To each age and each stage a special quality of satisfaction, enough for everyone, and enough for all time, no need to compete. States of being suffice. Let the handsome be familiar with the looking-glass, and let the ugly be gourmets (since so many cannot be beautiful, let eating be socially superior to portraits). Let this unwarranted sadness come to an end, sound and fury signify a multitude of enjoyments, the pleasure of pain, the pleasure indeed of pleasure. Pleasure believes in friends, pleasure creates communities, pleasure crumbles faces into smiles, pleasure links hand in hand, pleasure restores, pain is the most selfish thing. And yet, I know, all this is nothing, nothing consoles one, and our problem and pain are still before us.<br /><br />Let us continue to gaze upon it. Let us, I say, make a few sharp clear definite observations before we die. Let us judge all things according to the measure of our hearts (otherwise we cannot live). Let us require of ourselves the strength and power to view our selves and the heart of man <em>with</em> disgust."
  , "Delmore Schwartz (\8220Pleasure\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at.<br />Children don\8217t have to go to school to learn how to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history.<br />They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved."
  , "Steven Pinker"
  , False
  )
, ( "Education is the process of telling smaller and smaller lies."
  , "J. R. Deller Junior"
  , True
  )
, ( "Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary.<br />No such faith comforts the software engineer."
  , "Fred Brooks"
  , False
  )
, ( "Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: \"I feed on your energy.\""
  , "Frank Herbert (<em>Dune Messiah</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Elegance should be left to shoemakers and tailors."
  , "Ludwig Boltzmann"
  , True
  )
, ( "Empty-handed I entered the world<br />Barefoot I leave it.<br />My coming, my going\8212<br />Two simple happenings<br />That got entangled."
  , "Kozan Ichikyo (<em>Japanese Death Poems</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
  , "Charles Babbage"
  , True
  )
, ( "Even in one\8217s sleep<br />one dreams of this world<br />and of no other;<br />just as there is no dawn here<br />that brings true awakening."
  , "Sh\333tetsu"
  , False
  )
, ( "Evening cherry-blossoms:<br />I slip inkstone back into kimono<br />this one last time."
  , "Kaisho"
  , True
  )
, ( "Every drop of blood has great talent; the original cellule seems identical in all animals, and only varied in its growth by the varying circumstance which opens now this kind of cell and now that, causing in the remote effect now horns, now wings, now scales, now hair; and the same numerical atom, it would seem, was equally ready to be a particle of the eye or brain of man, or of the claw of a tiger...The man truly conversant with life knows, against all appearances, that there is a remedy for every wrong, and that every wall is a gate."
  , "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
  , False
  )
, ( "Every explanation I can give myself, I can give you too. & when I do this, I do not tell you less than I know myself."
  , "Wittgenstein (<em>Philosophical Investigations</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Every now and then I feel a temptation to design a programming language but then I just lie down until it goes away."
  , "L. Peter Deutsch"
  , False
  )
, ( "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.<br />Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
  , "Jamie Zawinski\8217s Law"
  , False
  )
, ( "Every task involves constraint,<br />Solve the thing without complaint;<br />There are magic links and chains<br />Forged to loose our rigid brains.<br />Strictures, structures, though they bind,<br />Strangely liberate the mind."
  , "James E. Falen"
  , False
  )
, ( "Every time I write about the impossibility of effectively protecting digital files on a general-purpose computer, I get responses from people decrying the death of copyright. \"How will authors and artists get paid for their work?\" they ask me. Truth be told, I don\8217t know. I feel rather like the physicist who just explained relativity to a group of would-be interstellar travelers, only to be asked: \"How do you expect us to get to the stars, then?\" I\8217m sorry, but I don\8217t know that, either."
  , "Bruce Schneier (\8220Protecting Copyright in the Digital World\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Every writer carries in his or her mind an invisible tribunal of dead writers...from [whose] unenforceable verdict there is no appeal."
  , "Robert Hughes"
  , False
  )
, ( "Every year without knowing it I have passed the day<br />When the last fires will wave to me<br />And the silence will set out<br />Tireless traveler<br />Like the beam of a lightless star</p> <p>Then I will no longer<br />Find myself in life as in a strange garment<br />Surprised at the earth<br />And the love of one woman<br />And the shamelessness of men<br />As today writing after three days of rain<br />Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease<br />And bowing not knowing to what"
  , "W. S. Merwin (\"For the Anniversary of My Death\")"
  , False
  )
, ( "Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case."
  , "William Saroyan (letter written to his survivors)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
  , "Andr\233 Gide"
  , False
  )
, ( "Everything is correlated." , "" , True )
, ( "Everything is heritable." , "" , True )
, ( "Everything starts as somebody\8217s daydream."
  , "Larry Niven"
  , True
  )
, ( "Expect poison from the standing water."
  , "William Blake (\8220Proverbs of Hell\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Explanations are not offered gratuitously, just because (say) ice happens to float. I can explain nothing to you unless I first draw your attention to patent inadequacies in your knowledge: discontinuities in the relations between objects, or the presence of anomalies you cannot account for with your laws. You will remain deaf to my explanations until you suspect yourself of falsehood...Explanations establish islands, even continents, of order and predictability. But the regions were first charted by adventurers whose lives are narratives of exploration and risk. They found them only by mythic journeys into the wayless open."
  , "James P. Carse"
  , False
  )
, ( "Explanations of historically important events that focus on the actions of a special few therefore misunderstand their true causes, which are invariably complex and often depend on the actions of a great many individuals whose names are lost to history.<br />Interestingly, in the natural world we don\8217t find this sort of explanation controversial. When we hear that a raging forest fire has consumed millions of acres of California forest, we don\8217t assume that there was anything special about the initial spark."
  , "Duncan Watts"
  , False
  )
, ( "Exponentials are a hell of a drug." , "" , True )
, ( "Expressions come to an end somewhere."
  , "Wittgenstein (<em>Philosophical Investigations</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
  , ""
  , True
  )
, ( "Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise."
  , "John Tukey"
  , False
  )
, ( "Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization. We filled that niche because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it."
  , "Nick Bostrom (2014)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse. Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present."
  , "Seneca"
  , False
  )
, ( "Fictional shows are merely gripping lies."
  , "Bryan Caplan"
  , True
  )
, ( "For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter\8217s is much prettier.<br />You may not realize its advantages until you\8217re trying to breathe liquid methane."
  , "Neal Stephenson (\8220In the Kingdom of Mao Bell\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
  , "Richard Feynman (\8220Appendix F: Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "For every polynomial-time algorithm you have, there is an exponential algorithm that I would rather run."
  , "Alan Perlis"
  , False
  )
, ( "For forms of government let fools contest<br />Whate\8217er is best administered, is best."
  , "Alexander Pope"
  , True
  )
, ( "For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
  , "Thomas De Quincey (\8220On Murder Considered  As One of the Fine Arts\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "For more than one reason what I publish here will have points of contact with what other people are writing to-day.\8212If my remarks do not bear a stamp which marks them as mine,\8212I do not wish to lay any further claim to them as my property. I make them public with doubtful feelings. It is not impossible that it should fall to the lot of this work, in its poverty and in the darkness of this time, to bring light into one brain or another\8212but, of course, it is not likely.</p> <p>I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.</p> <p>I should have liked to produce a good book. This has not come about, but the time is past in which I could improve it."
  , "Wittgenstein (<em>Philosophical Investigations</em> preface)"
  , False
  )
, ( "For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history."
  , "Winston Churchill (speech in the House 1948-01-23)"
  , False
  )
, ( "For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth;<br />Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use."
  , "Martin Farquhar Tupper"
  , False
  )
, ( "For we can always see and feel much that the people in old photos and newsreels could not:<br /><br />that their clothing and automobiles were old-fashioned,<br />that their landscape lacked skyscrapers and other contemporary buildings,<br />that their world was black<br />  and white<br />  and haunting<br />  and gone."
  , "Kramer et al"
  , False
  )
, ( "For \8216Tragedy\8217 [<em>\964\961<strong>\945</strong>\947\969\948\943\945</em>] and \8216Comedy\8217 [<em>\964\961<strong>\965</strong>\947\969\948\943\945</em>] come to be out of the same letters."
  , "Democritus"
  , False
  )
, ( "For, gentlemen, it is a fact, that every philosopher of eminence for the two last centuries has either been murdered, or, at the least, been very near it; insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him; and against Locke\8217s philosophy in particular, I think it an unanswerable objection...that, although he carried his throat about with him in this world for seventy-two years, no man ever condescended to cut it."
  , "Thomas De Quincey (\8220On Murder Considered  As One of the Fine Arts\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past."
  , "Anne Lamott"
  , True
  )
, ( "Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor\8217s prejudices as the advertisers don\8217t object to."
  , "Hannen Swaffer"
  , False
  )
, ( "Frog put the cookies in a box. \8220There\8221, he said. \8220Now we will not eat any more cookies.\8221<br />\8220But we can open the box\8221, said Toad.<br />\8220That is true\8221, said Frog.<br /><br />Frog tied some string around the box. \8220There\8221, he said. \8220Now we will not eat any more cookies.\8221<br />\8220But we can cut the string and open the box.\8221 said Toad.<br />\8220That is true\8221, said Frog.<br /><br />Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. \8220There\8221, said Frog. \8220Now we will not eat any more cookies.\8221<br />\8220But we can climb the ladder & take the box down from the shelf & cut the string & open the box\8221, said Toad.<br />\8220That is true\8221, said Frog."
  , "Arnold Lobel (<em>Frog and Toad Together</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "From long ago<br />I have been traveling,<br />yet never arriving.<br />Even the old have far to go:<br />for that is the way with this Way."
  , "Sh\333tetsu (\8220Reminiscing\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "From too much love of living,<br />From hope and fear set free,<br />We thank with brief thanksgiving<br />Whatever gods may be<br />That no man lives for ever;<br />That dead men rise up never;<br />That even the weariest river<br />Winds somewhere safe to sea.<br /><br />Then star nor sun shall waken,<br />Nor any change of light;<br />Nor sound of waters shaken,<br />Nor any sound or sight;<br />Nor wintry nor vernal,<br />Nor days, nor things diurnal;<br />Only the sleep eternal<br />In an eternal night."
  , "Algernon C. Swinburne (\8220The Garden of Proserpine\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "GIGO." , "" , True )
, ( "Gallant fellows, these soldiers; they always go for the thickest place in the fence."
  , "Admiral De Robeck (WWI)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Gathering lotuses we called each other<br />in lovely transparent water<br />enjoying ourselves unaware of dusk<br />we kept watching the rising gale<br />swells cradled the mandarin ducks<br />waves rocked the mallards<br />and us resting our oars<br />letting our thoughts surge on"
  , "Han-Shan"
  , False
  )
, ( "Gentile or Jew<br />O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,<br />Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you."
  , "T. S. Eliot (<em>The Wasteland</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Give it the compute, give it the data, and it will do amazing things. This stuff is like\8212it\8217s like <em>alchemy</em>!"
  , "Ilya Sutskever (summer 2019)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Glory be to God for dappled things\8212<br />For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;<br />For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;<br />Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches\8217 wings;<br />Landscape plotted and pieced\8212fold, fallow, and plough;<br />And \225ll tr\225des, their gear and tackle and trim.</p><p>All things counter, original, spare, strange;<br />Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)<br />With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;<br />He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:<br />Praise him."
  , "Gerard Manley Hopkins (\8220Pied Beauty\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath. And this the more, because it is one of the appointed conditions of the labour of men that, in proportion to the time between the seed-sowing and the harvest, is the fullness of the fruit; and that generally, therefore, the farther off we place our aim, and the less we desire to be ourselves the witnesses of what we have laboured for, the more wide and rich will be the measure of our success. Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those who come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.<br />\167\&10. Nor is there, indeed, any present loss, in such respect, for futurity. Every human action gains in honour, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test. Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, \8220See! this our fathers did for us.\8221: For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold.<br />Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy, nay, even of approval or condemnation, which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. It is in their lasting witness against men, in their quiet contrast with the transitional character of all things, in the strength which, through the lapse of seasons and times, and the decline and birth of dynasties, and the changing of the face of the earth, and of the limits of the sea, maintains its sculptured shapeliness for a time insuperable, connects forgotten and following ages with each other, and half constitutes the identity, as it concentrates the sympathy, of nations: it is in that golden stain of time, that we are to look for the real light, and colour, and preciousness of architecture; and it is not until a building has assumed this character, till it has been entrusted with the fame, and hallowed by the deeds of men, till its walls have been witnesses of suffering, and its pillars rise out of the shadows of death, that its existence, more lasting as it is than that of the natural objects of the world around it, can be gifted with even so much as these possess, of language and of life."
  , "John Ruskin (<em>The Seven Lamps of Architecture</em> \167 \8216The Lamp of Memory\8217, 1849)"
  , False
  )
, ( "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?<br />...This prodigious event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars\8212and yet they have done it themselves."
  , "Nietzsche (<em>The Gay Science</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "God moves the player and he, the piece.<br />What god behind God originates the scheme<br />Of dust and time and dream and agony?"
  , "Borges (\8220The Game of Chess\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "God, in the dream, illumined the animal\8217s brutishness and he understood the reasons, and accepted his destiny; but when he awoke there was only a dark resignation, a valiant ignorance, for the machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of a wild beast.<br />Years later, Dante was dying in Ravenna, as unjustified and as lonely as any other man. In a dream, God declared to him the secret purpose of his life and work; Dante, in wonderment, knew at last who and what he was and blessed the bitterness of his life...upon waking, he felt that he had received and lost an infinite thing, something that he would not be able to recuperate or even glimpse, for the machinery of the world is much too complex for the simplicity of a man."
  , "Borges (\8220<em>Inferno</em> I, 32\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Good design is invisible." , "" , True )
, ( "Good ideology [Marxism]. Wrong species."
  , "E. O. Wilson"
  , True
  )
, ( "Gov\8217r. Thomas was so pleas\8217d with the construction of this stove...that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin\8217d it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any inventions of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
  , "Benjamin Franklin"
  , False
  )
, ( "Granted, in daily speech, where we don\8217t stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like \"the ordinary world\", \"ordinary life\", \"the ordinary course of events\"... But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal.<br />Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it.<br />And above all, not a single existence, not anyone\8217s existence in this world."
  , "Wislawa Szymborska (Nobel Prize lecture)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into which all Falsehoods, public and private, do sink, disappearing; whither, from the first origin of them, they were all doomed. For Nature is true and not a lie. No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature\8217s Reality, and be presented there for payment,\8212with the answer, No effects.<br />Pity only that it often had so long a circulation: that the original forger were so seldom he who bore the final smart of it! Lies, and the burden of evil they bring, are passed on; shifted from back to back, and from rank to rank; and so land ultimately on the dumb lowest rank, who with spade and mattock, with sore heart and empty wallet, daily come in contact with reality, and can pass the cheat no further.<br />...But with a Fortunatus\8217 Purse in his pocket, through what length of time might not almost any Falsehood last! Your Society, your Household, practical or spiritual Arrangement, is untrue, unjust, offensive to the eye of God and man. Nevertheless its hearth is warm, its larder well replenished: the innumerable Swiss of Heaven, with a kind of Natural loyalty, gather round it; will prove, by pamphleteering, musketeering, that it is a truth; or if not an unmixed (unearthly, impossible) Truth, then better, a wholesomely attempered one, (as wind is to the shorn lamb), and works well.<br />Changed outlook, however, when purse and larder grow empty! Was your Arrangement so true, so accordant to Nature\8217s ways, then how, in the name of wonder, has Nature, with her infinite bounty, come to leave it famishing there? To all men, to all women and all children, it is now indubitable that your Arrangement was false. Honour to Bankruptcy; ever righteous on the great scale, though in detail it is so cruel! Under all Falsehoods it works, unweariedly mining. No Falsehood, did it rise heaven-high and cover the world, but Bankruptcy, one day, will sweep it down, and make us free of it."
  , "Thomas Carlyle (<em>The French Revolution: a history</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Had Beta been French, perhaps he would\8217ve been an existentialist, probably though that wouldn\8217t\8217ve satisfied him.<br />He smiled contemptuously at mental speculations, for he remembered seeing philosophers fighting over garbage in the concentration camps.<br />Human thought had no significance; subterfuge and self-deception were easy to decipher: all that really counted was the movement of matter."
  , "Czes\322aw Mi\322osz (<em>The Captive Mind</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment,<br />they have had what they wanted"
  , "Robinson Jeffers (\8220Post Mortem\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
  , "Fran\231ois de La Rochefoucauld"
  , True
  )
, ( "Has the clear echo<br />Of the fullers\8217 mallets pounding clothes<br />Of pure white linen<br />Become embedded in the color<br />Of the frost that settles everywhere?"
  , "Fujiwara no Teika"
  , False
  )
, ( "Hasn\8217t common sense been wrong before? Of course. But how do people show that a common sense view is wrong? By demonstrating a conflict with other views even <em>more</em> firmly grounded in common sense. The strongest scientific evidence can always be rejected if you\8217re willing to say, \"Our senses deceive us\" or \"Memory is never reliable\" or \"All the scientists have conspired to trick us.\" The only problem with these foolproof intellectual defenses is... that... they\8217re... absurd."
  , "Bryan Caplan"
  , False
  )
, ( "Have you ever woken up from a dream that was so much more pleasant than real life that you wish you could fall back to sleep and return to the dream?...For some, <em>World of Warcraft</em> is like a dream they don\8217t have to wake up from\8212a world better than the real world because their efforts are actually rewarded."
  , "Half Sigma"
  , False
  )
, ( "He [H. G. Wells] has abandoned the sensational theory with the same honourable gravity and simplicity with which he adopted it. Then he thought it was true; now he thinks it is not true.<br />He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before 10 thousand people and tell them that twice 2 is four."
  , "G. K. Chesterton (<em>Heretics</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "He [Jonathan Swift] was always alone\8212alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella\8217s sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense genius: an awful downfall and ruin. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling.<br />We have other great names to mention\8212none I think, however so great or so gloomy."
  , "William Makepeace Thackeray"
  , False
  )
, ( "He [Mikhail Botvinnik]did not dissolve and he did not change. On the last pages of the book he is still the same Misha Botvinnik, pupil of the 157^th^ School of United Workers in Leningrad and Komsomol member. He had not changed at all for seventy years, and, listening to his sincere and passionate monologue, one involuntarily thinks of Confucius: \"Only the most clever and the most stupid cannot change.\""
  , "Genna Sosonko (<em>Russian Silhouettes</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."
  , "Borges (\8220The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "He asked who <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng\" class=\"backlink-not link-annotated link-live\">the stout man was</a> who had just been so ceremoniously disposed of. \8220He was an admiral\8221, they told him. \8220But why execute this admiral?\8221 he enquired. \8220Because he had not enough dead men to his credit\8221, was the reply; \8220he joined battle with a French admiral, and it has been established that their ships were not close enough to engage.\8221 \8220But surely\8221, exclaimed Candide, \8220the French admiral must have been just as far from the English as the English admiral was from the French!\8221 \8220True enough\8221, was the answer; \8220but in this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.\8221"
  , "Voltaire (em>Candide</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "He gives twice who gives promptly."
  , "Publilius Syrus"
  , True
  )
, ( "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
  , "Winston Churchill (of Stafford Cripps)"
  , True
  )
, ( "He knew another place, a wood,<br />And in it, tall as trees, were cliffs;<br />And if he stood on one of these,<br />'Twould be among the tops of trees,<br />Their upper branches round him wreathing,<br />Their breathing mingled with his breathing.<br />...He knew a path that wanted walking;<br />He knew a spring that wanted drinking;<br />A thought that wanted further thinking;<br />A love that wanted re-renewing.<br />...The factory was very fine;<br />He wished it all the modern speed.<br />...But he said then and still would say,<br />If there should ever come a day<br />When industry seemed like to die<br />Because he left it in the lurch,<br />Or even merely seemed to pine<br />For want of his approval, why,<br />Come get him\8212they knew where to search."
  , "Robert Frost (\8220A Lone Striker\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "He that lay in a golden Urne eminently above the Earth, was not likely to finde the quiet of these bones. Many of these Urnes were broke by a vulgar discoverer in hope of inclosed treasure. The ashes of <em>Marcellus</em> were lost above ground, upon the like account. Where profit hath prompted, no age hath wanted such miners. For which the most barbarous Expilators found the most civill Rhetorick. Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; What was unreasonably committed to the ground is reasonably resumed from it: Let Monuments and rich Fabricks, not Riches adorn mens ashes. The commerce of the living is not to be transferred unto the dead: It is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose, and no man is wronged where no man is possessor."
  , "Sir Thomas Browne (<em>Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
  , "Francis Bacon"
  , True
  )
, ( "He wrote boys\8217 books and intuitively<br />Recognized that the real<br />Realist isn\8217t the one who details<br />Lowdown heartland factories and farms<br />As if they would last, but the one who affirms,<br />From the other end of the galaxy,<br />Ours is the age of perilous miracles."
  , "Brad Leithauser (\8220A science fiction writer of the Fifties\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Here I like to quote Val\233ry, who said a person is a poet if his imagination is stimulated by the difficulties inherent in his art and <em>not</em> if his imagination is dulled by them. I think very few people can manage free verse\8212you need an infallible ear, like D. H. Lawrence, to determine where the lines should end."
  , "W. H. Auden"
  , False
  )
, ( "Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism."
  , "Wittgenstein (<em>Philosophical Investigations</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Here, on the level sand,<br />Between the sea and land,<br />What shall I build or write<br />Against the fall of night?<br />Tell me of runes to grave<br />That hold the bursting wave,<br />Or bastions to design<br />For longer date than mine.<br />Shall it be Troy or Rome<br />I fence against the foam,<br />Or my own name, to stay<br />When I depart for aye?"
  , "A. E. Housman"
  , False
  )
, ( "History relates the story of the famous Spartan, a mere boy who, when he was taken prisoner, kept shouting in his native Doric, \"I shall not be a slave!\" He was as good as his word. The first time he was ordered to perform a slave\8217s task, some humiliating household job (his actual orders were to fetch a disgusting chamber pot), he dashed his head against a wall and cracked his skull open. Freedom is as near as that\8212is anyone really still a slave?"
  , "Seneca"
  , False
  )
, ( "History tells us how in that past time<br />When all things happened, real,<br />Imaginary, and dubious, a man<br />Conceived the unconscionable plan<br />Of making an abridgement of the universe<br />In a single book; and with infinite zest<br />He towered his screed up, lofty and<br />Strenuous, polished it, and spoke the final verse.<br />About to offer his thanks to Fortune,<br />He lifted up his eyes and saw a burnished<br />Disc in the air and realized, stunned,<br />That somehow he had forgotten the moon."
  , "Borges (\8220The Moon\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Hollywood is filled with feel-good messages about how robotic logic is no match for fuzzy, warm, human irrationality, and how the power of love will overcome pesky obstacles such as a malevolent superintelligent computer. Unfortunately there isn\8217t a great deal of cause to think this is the case, any more than there is that noble gorillas can defeat evil human poachers with the power of chest-beating and the ability to use rudimentary tools."
  , "Tom Chivers"
  , False
  )
, ( "Hope always feels like it\8217s made up of a set of reasons: when it\8217s just sufficient sleep and a few auspicious hormones."
  , "Alain de Botton"
  , False
  )
, ( "How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?"
  , "Fran\231ois de La Rochefoucauld"
  , True
  )
, ( "How does a project get to be a year late?...One day at a time."
  , "Fred Brooks (<em>The Mythical Man-Month</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "How does it end?<br />It ends;<br />that\8217s all."
  , "Donald Rumsfeld (\8220End Zen\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "How the clouds<br />Seem to me birds, birds in God\8217s garden! I dare not!<br />The clouds are as a breath, the leaves are flakes of fire,<br />That clash i\8217 the wind and lift themselves from higher!"
  , "GPT-2"
  , False
  )
, ( "How would the world look different if X <em>was</em> true?"
  , ""
  , True
  )
, ( "Hubris is the greatest danger that accompanies formal data analysis...Let me lay down a few basics, none of which is easy for all to accept...1. The data may not contain the answer. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data."
  , "John Tukey (\8220Sunset Salvo\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
  , "Saul Bellows"
  , True
  )
, ( "Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something must be lost.<br />That is alchemy\8217s first law of Equivalent Exchange.<br />In those days, we really believed that to be the world\8217s one and only truth."
  , "Alphonse Elric (<em>Full Metal Alchemist</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "Hundred-foot trees produced by Heaven<br />get sawed into giant planks<br />unfortunate building timber<br />gets left in a hidden valley<br />its heart stays strong despite the years<br />its bark falls off day after day<br />if some astute person took it away<br />it could still prop up a stable"
  , "Han-Shan"
  , False
  )
, ( "Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue."
  , "Fran\231ois de La Rochefoucauld"
  , True
  )
, ( "I am Loyal to the Group of Seventeen."
  , "Gene Wolfe (\8220Loyal to the Group of Seventeen\8217s Story\8212The Just Man\8221)"
  , True
  )
, ( "I am for morality, and always shall be, and for virtue and all that; and I do affirm, and always shall, (let what will come of it), that murder is an improper line of conduct, highly improper; and I do not stick to assert, that any man who deals in murder, must have very incorrect ways of thinking, and truly inaccurate principles...I would subscribe 1 shilling [12 pence] and sixpence to have him apprehended, which is more by eighteen-pence than the most eminent moralists have subscribed for that purpose."
  , "Thomas De Quincey (\8220On Murder Considered as 1 of the Fine Arts\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I am not disturbed by the fact that those whom I have released are said to have left the country in order to make war against me once more.<br />Nothing pleases me better than that I should be true to my nature and they to theirs."
  , "Julius Caesar (letters to Atticus)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
  , "Isaac Newton"
  , True
  )
, ( "I am so tired of humanity and of the world that nothing interests me unless it involves at least 2 murders per page, or speaks of nameless horrors emanating from the outer reaches of space."
  , "Howard Philips Lovecraft"
  , False
  )
, ( "I am therefore writing this essay on literature to tell of the glorious accomplishments of past men of letters, and to comment on the causes of failure and success in writing. Perhaps some day the secret of this most intricate art may be entirely mastered. In making an axe handle by cutting wood with an axe, the model is indeed near at hand. But the adaptability of the hand to the ever-changing circumstances and impulses in the process of creation is such as words can hardly explain. What follows is only what can be said in words."
  , "Lu Chi (<em>Wen Fu</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I am, therefore, of the opinion that the problems have in essentials been finally solved.<br />And if I am not mistaken in this, then the value of this work secondly consists in the fact that it shows how little has been done when these problems have been solved."
  , "Wittgenstein (<em>Tractatus</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I called the world mad, and the world called me mad, and they outvoted me."
  , "Nathaniel Lee (on being committed to Bedlam; possibly apocryphal, via Joseph Priestley)"
  , True
  )
, ( "I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it\8230You would hang a man of no position like Ravaillac; but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the jailer to murder Mary, and William III of England ordered his Scots minister to extirpate a clan. Here are the greatest names coupled with the greatest crimes; you would spare those criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them higher than Haman."
  , "Lord Acton"
  , False
  )
, ( "I cannot forbear adding to these reasonings an observation, which may, perhaps, be found of some importance. In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remark\8217d, that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary way of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when of a sudden I am surpriz\8217d to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, 'is', and 'is not', I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an 'ought', or an 'ought not'.<br /> This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, 'tis necessary that it should be observ\8217d and explain\8217d; and at the same time that a reason should be given, for what seems altogether inconceivable, how this new relation can be a deduction from others, which are entirely different from it. But as authors do not commonly use this precaution, I shall presume to recommend it to the readers; and am persuaded, that this small attention wou\8217d subvert all the vulgar systems of morality, and let us see, that the distinction of vice and virtue is not founded merely on the relations of objects, nor is perceiv\8217d by reason."
  , "David Hume"
  , False
  )
, ( "I cannot tell how the truth may be;<br />I say the tale as \8217twas said to me."
  , "Sir Walter Scott"
  , True
  )
, ( "I cannot think it unlikely that there is such a total book on some shelf in the universe. I pray to the unknown gods that some man\8212even a single man, tens of centuries ago\8212has perused and read this book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification."
  , "Borges (\8220The Library of Babel\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this\8212who will count the votes, and how."
  , "Joseph Stalin"
  , False
  )
, ( "I decided therefore to use the word, 'programming'. I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying\8212I thought, let\8217s kill 2 birds with one stone. Let\8217s take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it\8217s impossible to use the word, 'dynamic', in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It\8217s impossible.<br />Thus, I thought 'dynamic programming' was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to."
  , "Richard Bellman (on the coining of 'dynamic programming')"
  , False
  )
, ( "I definitely think there is great art out there that was solely designed to give people what they want; in film, someone like [Charlie] Chaplin comes to mind. I mean, giving people what they want is an art unto itself, but I think the real challenge in that method is finding a way to give them what they want while giving them more."
  , "Jonathan Henderson"
  , False
  )
, ( "I died from a mineral and plant became;<br />Died from the plant, took a sentient frame;<br />Died from the beast, donned a human dress.<br />When by my dying did I ever grow less...?<br />Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar<br />With angels blessed; but even from angelhood<br />I must pass on: 'All save the face of God doth perish.'<br />When I have sacrificed my angelic soul,<br />I shall become what no mind has ever conceived,<br />Oh let me not exist! for non-existence<br />Proclaims in organ-tones: 'To Him shall we return.'"
  , "Rumi"
  , False
  )
, ( "I divide my officers into 4 classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Most often 2 of these qualities come together.<br />The officers who are clever & industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments.<br />Those who are stupid & lazy make up around 90% of every army in the world, and they can be used for routine work.<br />The man who is clever & lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations.<br />But whoever is stupid & industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!"
  , "General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord"
  , False
  )
, ( "I don\8217t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead."
  , "Cypher (<em>The Matrix</em>)"
  , True
  )
, ( "I don\8217t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
  , "Woody Allen"
  , True
  )
, ( "I favor any skepsis to which I may reply: \"Let us try it!\" But I no longer wish to hear anything of all those things and questions that do not permit any experiment."
  , "Friedrich Nietzsche"
  , False
  )
, ( "I felt the bone-strewn paths of the necropolis under my feet, and saw through the drifting river fog the slender figure of Vodalus as he gave his pistol to his mistress and drew his sword. Now (it is a sad thing to have become a man) I was struck by the extravagance of the gesture. He who had professed in a hundred clandestine placards to be fighting for the old ways, for the ancient high civilization Urth has now lost, has discarded the effectual weapon of that civilization.<br />If my memories of the past remain intact, perhaps it is only because the past exists only in memory. Vodalus, who wished as I did to summon it again, yet remained a creature of the present. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin."
  , "Gene Wolfe (<em>Citadel of the Autarch</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else\8217s; it\8217s always what I\8217ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It\8217s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise. And often even that idea doesn\8217t turn out to be very good.<br />I need time to think about it, too, to make mistakes and recognize them, to make false starts and correct them, to outlast my impulses, to defeat my desire to declare the job done and move on to the next thing."
  , "William Deresiewicz"
  , False
  )
, ( "I full my husband\8217s<br />Winter clothes, and every time<br />The spring rains fall,<br />The green of the meadows<br />Turns an ever deeper hue."
  , "Ki no Tsurayuki"
  , False
  )
, ( "I had forgotten\8212<br />As I kept on forgetting\8212<br />To remind myself<br />That those who vow to forget<br />Are the ones who can\8217t forget."
  , "Sh\333tetsu (\8220Forgotten Love\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I should wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonid\230 with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice. Not believing this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed...Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.\8212Let each man hope & believe what he can."
  , "Charles Darwin (to Asa Gray 1860-05-22)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I have always known<br />That at last I would<br />Take this road, but yesterday,<br />I did not know that it would be today."
  , "Ariwara no Narihira"
  , False
  )
, ( "I have been one acquainted with the night.<br />I have walked out in rain\8212and back in rain.<br />I have outwalked the furthest city light.<br />I have looked down the saddest city lane.<br />I have passed by the watchman on his beat<br />And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.<br />I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet<br />When far away an interrupted cry<br />Came over houses from another street,<br />But not to call me back or say good-bye;<br />And further still at an unearthly height,<br />One luminary clock against the sky<br />Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right<br />I have been one acquainted with the night."
  , "Robert Frost (\8220Acquainted With The Night\8221)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.<br />I know no way of judging the future but by the past."
  , "Patrick Henry"
  , False
  )
, ( "I have felt it myself... The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it\8217s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles\8212this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds."
  , "Freeman Dyson (1981)"
  , True
  )
, ( "I have made a modern formulation of the Golden Rule: \"Do unto others 20 percent better than you would be done by\8212the 20 percent is to correct for subjective error.\""
  , "Linus Pauling"
  , False
  )
, ( "I have met people who exaggerate the differences [between the morality of different cultures], because they have not distinguished between differences of morality and differences of belief about facts.<br />For example, one man said to me, \"Three hundred years ago people in England were putting witches to death. Was that what you call the Rule of Human Nature or Right Conduct?\"<br />But surely the reason we do not execute witches is that we do not believe there are such things. If we did-if we really thought that there were people going about who had sold themselves to the devil and received supernatural powers from him in return and were using these powers to kill their neighbours or drive them mad or bring bad weather, surely we would all agree that if anyone deserved the death penalty, then these filthy quislings did.<br />There is no difference of moral principle here: the difference is simply about matter of fact. It may be a great advance in knowledge not to believe in witches: there is no moral advance in not executing them when you do not think they are there. You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house."
  , "C. S. Lewis (<em>Mere Christianity</em>)"
  , False
  )
, ( "I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author\8217s political views."
  , "Edith Wharton (letter to Upton Sinclair)"