Peter Norvig's collection of quotes
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Peter Norvig's collection of quotes
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#2He seems very fond of Douglas Adams.
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#3 No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
- Leon Battista Alberti, (architect [1/3rd], painter [1/3rd] and mathematician [1/3rd, possibly less])Re: Peter Norvig's collection of quotes
#4Does anyone else think Sergey Brin's quote doesn't quite 'fit in' with the rest of the list in terms of quotability?
"In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey--but hopefully they won't kill people."
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#5Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it -- Richard Feynman
s/Science/Startup/
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#6Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. - Mark Twain
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to? - Bette Midler
"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."
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#7One of my favorite quotes is by H. Skovoroda:
"Merciful God for making the attainment of what is necessary easy, and for making everything that is hard to get unnecessary"
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#8I don't see any god up here.- Yuri Gagarin (in orbit, 1961)
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#9I like this one...
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
- Voltaire
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