Wisdom Quotes

"How to grow old gracefully, and wisely, is one of life's great lessons."

"Never fall in love with an idea."

"The reason we have to maintain standards is because without them, we have chaos."

"One bug in a thousand-line program will hide; one bug in a hundred-line program is easy to find."

"Small minds discuss people; great minds discuss ideas."

"One of the quickest ways to learn is to observe how others have succeeded."

"If you can reason with it, it is a computer. If you can't, you don't understand what a computer is."

"Every mistake is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself and the world."

"The right answer is often the simplest one, but finding it requires deep thought."

"Wisdom comes not from what we know, but from understanding what we do not."

"The patterns we find in nature reveal the architecture of creation."

"Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go."

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

"A practical flying machine should be simple and as few parts as possible."

"Beware of the attitude of fighting windmills."

"Money is worth nothing without knowledge to use it."

"Keep your ideas to yourself until they are fully developed."

"We learned more from failures than from successes."

"The smallest pea plant holds secrets that unlock the mysteries of creation."

"The mind, like a garden, grows strongest when properly cultivated."

"If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent."

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

"The real problem is that the problem of formulating everything explicitly is so difficult."

"The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due to some confusion of ideas as to the rôle played by the computer in the experiments."

"The original question 'Can machines think?' is too meaningless to deserve discussion."

"The nature of such a machine must be made clear before we can discuss whether it thinks or not."

"Let us ignore the minutiae of technique."

"The question of whether Machines Can Think is itself an expression of human concern rather than a technical question."

"Some of these difficulties are of the sort to be expected if we were to try to imitate a brain of lower complexity."

"We need not always majorize. We might occasionally minimize."