Humans Play Quotes

#1. Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the things we do is spot some opportunity on the chess board toward a move to capture the opponent's queen.

Stuart J. Russell

#2. While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters.

Toba Beta

#3. Humans are fascinated by emotional material. We are always intrigued by the news and tragic events that are covered in the TV, radio, and newspapers.

Ruchira Khanna

#4. If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.

Zenna Henderson

#5. You didn't always have to be more powerful. Sometimes you just had to refuse to lose.

T.A. Pratt

#6. She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don't, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.

Gayle Forman

#7. Humans finding themselves called to play a vital role in the larger purposes of the creator for the creation.

N. T. Wright

#8. Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don't have any idea the part they play in the outcome of someone else's.

Kate McGahan

#9. Humans recite the words to the play they are in without ever bothering to read the script.

James Rozoff

#10. The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

Josh Turner

#12. You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

Bob Dylan

#13. We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
human in the truest sense of the word.

Rudolf Steiner

#14. There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

Tony Abbott

#15. There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

Albert Einstein

#16. Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Douglas Adams

#17. Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.

Ariel Levy

#18. Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

Vijay Kumar

#19. Emotions play a vital part in the social transmission of news and information. Interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt affect how some stories catch on and travel far wider than others.

Alfred Hermida

#20. While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.

Emanuel Lasker

#21. While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

Orson Scott Card

#22. Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

Jon Winokur

#23. I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.

Andrea Mitchell

#24. In his books, Tolle repeatedly denigrated the habit of worrying, which he characterized as a useless process of projecting fearfully into an imaginary future. "There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn't exist.

Dan Harris

#25. Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

J. A. Jance

#26. It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

George Lopez

#27. Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

Kobo Abe

#28. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

Victoria Schwab

#29. Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

Howard Bloom

#30. For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

Robin Marantz Henig

#31. I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.

Roxane Gay

#32. Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

Robin Marantz Henig

#33. Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.

The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.

John N. Gray

#34. When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.

Tyler Cowen

#35. He grew in me as I drowned in him.

Stella Rhys

#36. It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun. The more they were gifted with inventions, the less they needed one another. They didn't sing or play the fiddle at the hearth; they turned on the stereo. They didn't tell stories on the porch; they watched television.

Laura Whitcomb

#37. Which is why you deal with demons. (Acheron)
Who are even more pathetic than humans when you think about it. Personally, I'd rather play video games. Wouldn't it be great if we could suck the souls of the people we hated into the box, shoot them down and then dance on their entrails? (Jaden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#38. If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

Theodore Roosevelt

#39. Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.

William H. Schlesinger