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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Michel Houellebecq doesn’t just forecast current events; he satirizes them, dryly, with perfect pitch. His mimicry of the inflated language of marketing, bureaucratic euphemism, and hypertechnical mumbo jumbo finds the exact midpoint between amusing and appalling.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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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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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at
Deakin University
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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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Campus Life at the
University of North Dakota
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The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees in himself. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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