We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening – the time they call, for some accountable reason, ‘between dog and wolf’.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor house in an automobile.
~ Will Rogers
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Wavering between the profit and the loss, in this brief transit where the dreams cross.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Humans know how to deal with a chaotic and constantly changing world. Machines struggle to master the unexpected — the challenges, both small and large, that do not look like what has happened in the past. Humans can dream up ideas that the world has never seen. Machines typically repeat or enhance what they have seen before.
~ Cade Metz
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You don’t realize that you’re intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
~ James Baldwin
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Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
~ Donald Norman
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Columbia University was founded on this day in 1754
Columbia University was founded on this day – May 25 – in 1754.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
~ Gertrude Stein
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