Opencourseware Stanford Quotes

#1. The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

Francisco Varela

#2. Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Baruch Spinoza

#3. As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Adam Sedgwick

#4. They've heard the songs and stories, so they go off with eager hearts, dreaming of the wonders they will see, of the wealth and glory they will win. War seems a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle.

George R R Martin

#5. It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

Ian MacKaye

#6. Life is filled with pain and beauty. It's a journey, a learning experience. You've always been a girl who has had to learn by doing, not by watching and listening--don't change that. Don't change that now--you're too young.

Karyn Bosnak

#7. Many things change with time, but certain basic human traits remain eternal: curiosity and empathy, the urge to know and the urge to connect.

Azar Nafisi

#8. The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.

Matt Shea

#9. Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.

Mindy McGinnis

#10. All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.

Voltaire

#11. When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow, said Buddha.

Deepak Chopra

#12. City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

L. Neil Smith