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• The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
  The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient....
• The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
  The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient....
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended, or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
  Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subjec...
• Special AI Seminar (abstract) It has been widely recognized that AI programs require expert knowledge in order to perform well in complex domains.
  But knowledge alone is not sufficient for some applicatio...
• Man: I'm sorry, Mr. Burns, but I must object. This Simpson is not qualified!
  [There are nods of agreement] Burns: I see....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• All advances by degrees in Nature, and nothing by leaps, and this law as applied to each, is part of my doctrine of Continuity.
  Although there may exist in some other world species intermediate between Man and the Apes, Nature has thought it best to remove them from us, in order to establish our superiority beyond question....