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The Case for Using Probabilistic Knowledge in a Computer Chess Program (John L. Jerz)
Resilience in Man and Machine

The medium is the message...

If it works, it is obsolete.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones?

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

I may be wrong, but I’m never in doubt.

You know nothing of my work.

Nobody can doubt that the entire range of applied science contributes to the very format of a newspaper. But the headline is a feature which began with the Napoleonic Wars. The headline is a primitive shout of rage, triumph, fear, or warning, and newspapers have thrived on wars ever since.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

I don't explain - I explore.

The only method for perceiving process and pattern is by inventory of effects obtained by the comparison and contrast of developing situations.

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