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The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence
What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.
It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.
You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and the health of the mother are taken into account.
If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.
In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.
I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.
Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.
Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.
Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.
[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.
I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.
I love breakfast, so I'd probably spend a long time on that. And breakfast food matters so I'd make sure it is the best food - great fruit and such.
I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.
My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.
There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.
The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.
I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.
Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.
Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give up.
My friends and family definitely helped me with the biggest obstacle in my life, which was just staying in L.A. long enough to really give it a shot.
It shouldn't matter WHO you love; it should matter HOW you love. As long as you love someone with all your heart, than that's all that truly matters.
At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.
The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.
Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.
I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.
I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.
People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.
We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.
Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.
I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.
If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.
Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.