Mark Twain? John W. Casto? Maturin M. Ballou? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Mark Twain traveled widely, and he wrote about his experiences in the books “The Innocents Abroad” and “Following the Equator”. Twain believed that travel broadened the mind and reduced prejudices. Would you please help me to find a quotation in which he … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Travel Is Fatal To Prejudice, Bigotry and Narrow-Mindedness"| Quote Investigator®
Patrick O’Connor? Stella Adler? Edward Fuller? Elizabeth Hodgson? Irving Babbitt? Margaret Harford? Jed Harris? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Living authors are often viewed with a mixture of suspicion and aggravation. Here are three versions of a pertinent adage: (1) The only good author is a dead author.(2) All good authors are dead authors.(3) The … Continue reading "Adage Origin: The Only Good Author Is a Dead Author"| Quote Investigator®
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B. F. Skinner? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A famous psychologist once contemplated the question of machine intelligence and presented a provocative counter question: The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. This statement has been attributed to U.S. behaviorist B. F. Skinner. Would you please help me to find a … Continue reading "Quote Origin: The Real Question Is Not Whether Machines Think But Whether People Do"| Quote Investigator®
IBM Motto? Richard Hamming? Sia Armajani? Howard Dimmig? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Machines can perform work which humans do not wish to perform because it is repetitive and dangerous. Yet, as we enter the age of advanced AI there are many humans who desire to continue to perform creative and engaging tasks. Here are … Continue reading "Motto Origin: Machines Should Work. People Should Think"| Quote Investigator®
Peter Ustinov? Frank A. Jones? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The British actor and raconteur Peter Ustinov once wrote about an inevitable balance between dreams and nightmares. Would you please help me to find a citation? Reply from Quote Investigator: In February 1989 Peter Ustinov published an article about Orson Welles in “The Independent” newspaper … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Unfortunately, the Balance of Nature Decrees That a Superabundance of Dreams Is Paid fo...| Quote Investigator®
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Civis? Sapper? Scott Hurtt Paradise? H. O. A. Anne? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Warfare is horrific, but feelings of terror occur intermittently. Battlefield veterans developed the following saying: War consists of months of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Would you please explore the provenance of this saying? Reply from Quote Investigator: This … Continue reading "Quote Origin: War Consists of Months of Intolerable Boredom Interspersed with Moments of Extrem...| Quote Investigator®
Ignazio Silone? Gwenda David? Eric Mosbacher? William Weaver? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Thinkers have attempted to analyze and explain the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy. An Italian writer suggested that the failure of left-wing revolutionary movements catalyzed the emergence of fascism. Here is the pertinent quotation: Fascism is a counter-revolution against a … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Fascism Is a Counter-Revolution Against a Revolution That Never Took Place"| Quote Investigator®
Hans Moravec? Timothy Leary? Vince Rause? Grant Fjermedal? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The creation of the first living beings on planet Earth was an epochal change. The prominent roboticist Hans Moravec has stated that the advent of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) will be a change comparable to the transition from non-life to life. Would … Continue reading "Quote Origin: We Are on the Threshold of a Change in the Universe Comparable to the Transition from Non-Life to...| Quote Investigator®
Elbert Hubbard? Mary Sargent Hopkins? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
John Stuart Mill? Henry George? H. L. Mencken? C. Palfrey? J. E. Jennings? Adam Coaldigger? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
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Eubie Blake? Erma Bombeck? Mickey Mantle? Adolph Zukor? Billy Noonan? Robert Henley? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
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Roberto Alazar? Pasi Kuoppamaki? Richard M. Scammon? Ben Wattenberg? John Kenneth Galbraith? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
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Arthur Kantrowitz? Gerard K. O’Neill? Timothy Leary? Arthur C. Clarke? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Vladimir Lenin? Karl Marx? Louis C. Fraina? Homero Aridjis? Carlos Fuentes? Saint Peter? George Galloway? Liz Smith? Steve Bannon? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Heidelberg Professor? Chairman of an Irish Company? Claude T. Bissell? Sean MacReamoinn? Walter Heller? Garret FitzGerald? Ernest Hollings? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Charles De Gaulle? Georges Clemenceau? Elbert Hubbard? R. C. O’Brien? Vladmir Bjornberg? Seth Wiggins? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Viktor E. Frankl? Stephen R. Covey? Rollo May? Thomas Walton Galloway? Sheldon P. Stoff? B. F. Skinner? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Abraham Lincoln? W. H. Alexander? Wood Cutter? Lumberjack? Woodsman? Apocryphal? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Bill Gates? James E. Fawcette? Nancy Andrews? Jerry Pournelle? InfoWorld? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Mark Twain? Jonathan Swift? Thomas Francklin? Fisher Ames? Thomas Jefferson? John Randolph? Charles Haddon Spurgeon? Winston Churchill? Terry Pratchett? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
A Fired Machinist? Charles R. Wiers? Hubert N. Alyea? Charles Proteus Steinmetz? Henry Ford? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Mark Twain? Josh Billings? Artemus Ward? Kin Hubbard? Will Rogers? Edwin Howard Armstrong? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Fyodor Dostoyevsky? Leo Tolstoy? Mary Morris? John Gardner? David Long? Ernest Hemingway? Deepak Chopra?| Quote Investigator®
Ernest Hemingway? William R. Kane? Roy K. Moulton? Avery Hopwood? Arthur C. Clarke? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Voltaire? Spider-Man? Winston Churchill? Theodore Roosevelt? Franklin D. Roosevelt? Lord Melbourne? John Cumming? Hercules G. R. Robinson? Henry W. Haynes? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
George Bernard Shaw? Winston Churchill? Groucho Marx? Max Aitken? Mark Twain? W. C. Fields? Bertrand Russell?| Quote Investigator®
Niels Bohr? Samuel Goldwyn? K. K. Steincke? Robert Storm Petersen? Yogi Berra? Mark Twain? Nostradamus? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder? Carl von Clausewitz? Dwight D. Eisenhower? Mike Tyson? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Mark Twain? Theodor Reik? John Robert Colombo? James Eayrs? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Blaise Pascal? John Locke? Benjamin Franklin? Henry David Thoreau? Cicero? Woodrow Wilson?| Quote Investigator®
Henry Ford? Edward Menge? Lewis Mumford? Sedgewick Seti? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Dwight D. Eisenhower? Winston Churchill? Richard M. Nixon? Helmuth von Moltke? Mike Tyson? Anonymous| Quote Investigator®