A person doesn't neet to go to college to learn facts. He can get them
from books. The value of a liberal arts college education is that it
trains the mind to think. If a person had ability, a college education
helps develop it.

      - Albert Einstein

In life, of course, we never tell each other exactly what we want to say;
we never need to, as context, body language, familiarity with the speaker,
and so on, enable us to "fill in the gaps" and resolve any ambiguities in
what is said. Computers, however, can't yet "catch on" to what is being
said, the way a person does. They need to be told in excruciating detail
exactly what to do. Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope
with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime we have to be
very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

      - Richard P. Feynman, "Lectures on Computation"

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

      - Niels Bohr

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like
a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

      - Arthur C. Clarke

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

      - Benjamin Disraeli