Daniel Wolpert Quotes

#1. Daniel Wolpert, of Cambridge University, is fond of pointing out that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer is capable of beating a grand master at the game of chess, but no computer has yet been developed that can move a chess piece from one square to another as well as a 3-year-old child.

Stuart Firestein

#2. The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

George Eliot

#3. If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

Mohammed Dahlan

#4. Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. the Spirit is the mind that is always present, bringing the best, most loving, most hopeful thought into the midst of every situation.

Daniel Wolpert

#6. We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

Daniel Wolpert

#7. You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.

Daniel Wolpert

#8. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Hanna Arendt

#9. Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

Corbin Bernsen

#10. Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Ralph Fiennes

#11. Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you ...

Daniel Wolpert

#12. I am a movement chauvinist.

Daniel Wolpert

#13. There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

Daniel Wolpert

#14. The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower. Didn't

Jeff VanderMeer