Quotes of: Bertrand-russell Keyword

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Alan Perlis

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

Aristotle

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Dale Carnegie

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

Jesse Ventura

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.

Freeman Dyson

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Culture and Value

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Heartbreak House

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

Philip Emeagwali

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

Ralph Merkle

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Ralph Merkle

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

Ralph Merkle

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

Serge Lang

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

Serge Lang

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't , be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Ludwig Wittgenstein