Alan Turing Quotes

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Alan Turing

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GreatMeSurpriseTakeMachines

The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.

Jenny Shipley

WomenTodayWorldProblemsPotential

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.

Robert Grosseteste

ServiceYourselfLadyYouTableSee

Everybody has something they love to do. Do that thing.

Michael Ian Black

LoveSomethingEverybodyThing

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

John Rampton

PositiveGreatPurposeResultsWill

When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

Amy Chua

FamilySchoolParentsAmazingMom

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

Tony Abbott

PeopleFlyProblemKnowOutSuffer

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Tom Lehrer

NightYouWantRightAlwaysOver

When people asked me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said a basketball player, and I meant it. But I loved going to the movies.

Ron Howard

PeopleMeBasketballLovedBackUp

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

Luke Treadaway

CreativePeopleYouSayLondonFull

I ended up losing weight and going through a lot of stuff, but yeah, that is so much of my life and my past. I'm glad that I went through that because I don't think I would be where I am now if I hadn't gone through it. It spills over in most of my love for movies and being alone.

Josh Trank

LifeLoveAlonePastI AmLosing

I almost find it very attractive when a woman has no idea who I am.

Josh Henderson

WomanI AmFindAttractiveAlmost

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

Josh Radnor

GoodWeekendYouWantMoviesOut

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