Quotes

Learning

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.   Sugata Mitra Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist. He is best known for his “Hole in the Wall” experiment, and widely cited in… Read More ›

Flight

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.   Simon Newcomb Newcomb stated the above in 1901, but he was not as closed off as the quote makes people think.   “He begins an article titled… Read More ›

Machines

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.   B. F. Skinner B.F. Skinner (born March 20, 1904, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died August 18, 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American psychologist and an influential exponent of behaviourism, which views human behaviour in terms of responses… Read More ›

Sports

I was always a sports nut but I’ve lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.   John Cleese   John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October… Read More ›