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Alan Turing Quotes

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Alan Turing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: June 23, 1912 - June 7, 1954

Topics

Exercise Two Intuition May Ingenuity

I think the lies I make the most are in regards to my hopes and intentions for myself. As for lies I tell other people - I will certainly tell lies. When somebody is very ill and looks awful, and you tell them they look nice. Or if you just ate the last cookie, if someone asked me if I ate the last cookie, I would definitely lie about that.

Jesse Ball

Myself Lie People Me Think Someone

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

Andrew J. Bernstein

Light Experience Stress Mind Think

If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Max von Sydow

Today Name Back Stop Never Up

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

John Stuart Mill

Pain Prevention Promotion Pleasure

When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally. My mother had one particular Dumas book that was a family heirloom - this old, beat-up 1938 edition of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' in French. She came to America after losing her parents in World War II as a little kid.

Tom Reiss

Family Mother War Losing Parents

I believe in dancing.

Robert Fulghum

Believe I Believe Dancing

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.

Mary Roach

Good Time Yourself Book Think You

I feel like I'm constantly trying to avoid awkwardness. I always try to pretend that the awkwardness doesn't exist, and then it just becomes more awkward.

Julia Stiles

Feel Trying Try More Always Awkward

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

Dick Dale

People Musicians Play

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.

Dennis Quaid

Work Great Job You Know Three

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Doris Lessing

Writing Unhappy Very

I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.

Dean Ornish

Government Single Big Universal