Singapore Classics Quotes

#1. Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.

Stephen Baker

#2. Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

Ronald Reagan

#3. But seriously Holden, what is the island called now?"

"Sentosa," Holden said romantically and with a flourish of his unoccupied left hand.

"Sentosa. Sounds romantic all right. So this is the progress you're talking about?

Robert Yeo

#4. A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

Leona Lewis

#5. I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged.

Lim Thean Soo

#7. Without looking, I felt his stare burn my skin. A burn way more pleasurable than bacon grease. I had him. He just didn't know it yet.

Lynn Vroman

#8. When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.

Sameer Khan

#9. My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Dolores Huerta