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: Machines can calculate. Therefore, calculation is the lowest form of intelligence.
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
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Charles F Kettering :
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An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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Henri F Amiel :
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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Henri F Amiel :
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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John Brunner :
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First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.
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Simone Weil :
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Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
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Lord Kelvin :
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Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
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Yogi Berra :
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He's a big clog in their machine.
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George Bernard Shaw :
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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William - a k a Lord Kelvin Thomson :
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Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
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Even European philosophers have taken notice that most of what we take for knowledge is nothing but bias and prejudice.
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Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.
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The mind does not regulate its own condition. Mental depression, for example, is a state of mind caused by the body. In a cell in the hole it only seems that there is a separation of mind and body - in fact, the body's condition (of deprivation of sensations; experiences, functions, and so on) controls the moods of the mind more than in any other situation I can think of.
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The intelligence recedes, no more a tool of learning - because knowledge is based on experience - but a tool of the outside world it is deprived of knowing. It tries to contact other minds by telepathy; it becomes the Ancestor. Words and Numbers come to hold mystic significance: they were invented by some arcane magic older than man. The line between the word and the thing vanishes; the intervals of numbers in infinity collapse with infinity.
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But a kind of genius can come of this deprivation of sensation, of experience. It has been mistaken as naїve intelligence, when in fact it is empty intelligence, pure intelligence. The composition of the mind is altered. Its previous cultivation is disintegrated and it has greater access to the brain, the body: it is Supersanity. Learning is turned inside out. You have to start from the top and work your way down. You must study mathematical theory before simple arithmetic; theoretical physics before applied physics; anatomy, you might say, before you can walk.
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I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.
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This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.
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If society punishes its members by death and imprisonment, why is anyone surprised when a member of society punishes his enemies with "death and imprisonment"?
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Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.
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Machines can calculate. Therefore, calculation is the lowest form of intelligence.
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