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E. W. Dijkstra "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." E. W. Dijkstra quotes
Alex Thomas: Ask a Stupid Question My mother always told me, 'Boy, if somebody asks you a stupid question, you give them a stupid answer.' The cops walked up to my car, 'Would you like to step out of the car?' I said, 'Hell no, it's hot! I got the air conditioner on. How about you hop your ass in here with me?'
John Ramsey: Old Security Passwords So they ask me, 'Would you like to answer your secret security password question?' I think, 'Oh yeah, surely I can answer a question posed by slightly younger me.'
Jeseph Joubert "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." Jeseph Joubert quotes
"Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment — a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man’s existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer." – Arthur Schopenhauer "Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness ...