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Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
Alan Kay
You
Science
World
Job
Computer Science
Rules
Out
Find
Give
Given
Computer
Normal
Creates
Your
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
Alexis Carrel
Day
Morning
Live
Every
Way
Examine
Results
Most
Obtained
Make
Efficient
Plan
Reasonably
Every Night
Night
The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
Ben Carson
God
Me
Relationship
You
Confidence
Son
Important
Encouragement
Universe
Having
Gives
He
Know
Most
Knowing
Most Important Thing
Him
Empowering
Important Thing
His
Sins
Very
Die
Owner
Move
Move Forward
The Most Important
Loves
Sent
Your
Forward
Creator
Thing
It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Ben Carson
Life
You
Too Late
People
Never Too Late
Matter
Too
Late
Recognize
City
Find
City People
Potential
Never
Fail
Come
Excuses
Lots
Person
Themselves
Who
Inner
Inner City
It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
Ben Carson
You
Risks
People
Worth
Value
Important
Value System
System
Taking
Know
Because
Understand
Very
Which
Themselves
Then
Your
Avoiding
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
Hope
Good
Communication
Evil
Corrupts
Manners
Live
Good Manners
Corrects
Bad
Bad Manners
Hear
We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
Carl Sagan
Trouble
Bad
Understand
Very
Trying
Planet
Save
If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots.
Cynthia Breazeal
Today
You
Field
Living
Final
Say
Mars
Come
Know
Look
Robotics
Robots
Oceans
Been
Just
Frontier
Places
Room
Your
Now
Deepest
Living Room
Starting
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Dian Fossey
Life
Future
You
Value
Past
More
Concentrate
Dwell
Realize
Less
Preservation
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei
Nature
Man
Hidden
Relentless
Indifferent
Unchangeable
Understandable
Whether
Reasons
Actions
Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.
George Washington Carver
God
Great
Spiritual
Man
Christ
Other
Seeks
Could
He
Fellow
Fellow Man
Hand
Get
Human
Which
Really
Across
Fill
Vacuum
Need
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
You
Drunk
Though
All Night
Dreamt
Something
Make
Sound
Up
Being
After
Creationist
Theory
Night
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov
Government
Library
Think
Society
Way
Destroy
About
More
Only
Read
Itself
American
Being
Which
Cut
American Society
Found
Funds
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
World
Decision
Will
Made
Only
Taking
Longer
Without
Account
Any
Sensible
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
Jane Goodall
Life
You
Dog
Pet
Animals
Feelings
Minds
Cat
Had
Share
Perfectly
Know
Well
Done
Cannot
Personalities
Your
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead
Work
Learning
Age
Old
Old Age
Arbitrary
Put
False
Childhood
Middle
Middle Age
Regrets
Play
Utterly
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
Progress
Way
Neither
Easy
Nor
Taught
Swift
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck
Work
Faith
Science
Words
Seriously
Has-Been
Kind
Must
Temple
Entrance
Written
Over
Scientific
Been
Any
Anybody
Engaged
Who
Gates
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nature
Space
Society
Other
Rival
Unto
Force
Itself
Space Exploration
Exploration
What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Love
You
Overcome
Hurdles
Whatever
Energy
Else
Above
Thrown
Put
Got
Subject
Balls
Curve
Place
Them
Your
Deeply
Need
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
Charlatans
Against
Basically
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Future
You
Vote
People
World
Politician
Politicians
Recipe
About
Disaster
Making
Making Decisions
Scientifically
Office
Just
Literate
Whether
Decisions
Mean
Who
Illiterate
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Politics
Time
Religion
You
Conflict
Problem
Disagree
Move On
Kind
Data
Both
Wrong
Insufficient
Because
Does
Scientists
Exist
Get
Any
Move
Either
Then
Agree
Right
Resolution
Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
Niklas Zennstrom
You
Yourself
People
Smart
Surround Yourself
Important
Build
Believe
Dream
One-Man
Something
More
Share
Smart People
Doing
Surround
Than
May
Experienced
Really
Your
Show
Your Dream
Dedicated
Who
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus
Ethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Astronomy
Rests
Pillars
Four
Alchemy
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins
Good
Evil
Nothing
Design
Universe
Indifference
Properties
Purpose
Bottom
Observe
Blind
Expect
Precisely
Should
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