Bernard Avishai Famous Quotes
"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."
Bernard Avishai Quotations
"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."
Abraham Maslow
"Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee."
Biblical Proverb
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G M Trevelyan
Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.
Lord Thomas Dewar
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
"Go, and never darken my towels again."
Groucho Marx
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J Peter
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
John Tudor
"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."
Quentin Crisp