I see no limit to the capabilities of machines. As microchips get smaller and faster, I can see them getting better than we are. I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans.
~ Claude Shannon
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Monthly Archives: February 2025
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.
~ Roger Scruton
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Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.
~ Sun Tzu
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Campus Life at the
University of Plymouth
Five American Universities
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Film History 101:
The Bourne Ultimatum – These people will kill you if they have to
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Campus Life at the
University of Texas at Austin
Campus Life at
Case Western Reserve University
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Happy National Foundation Day
Wishing all of our readers in Japan a Happy National Foundation Day (Kenkoku Kinen no Hi) – which is observed every year on February 11.
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