User:Mcc38

Of the MATLAB demos, Conway's Game of Life is pretty cool. Zero-player games [[1]]

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[ http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/reverse-engineering-the-brain]

Sally Adee, June 2008, accessed October 12 2012 (Reverse-engineering the brain)

a short list

• "I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

• "(sigh) What a day..."
• "I have no morals."
• "I'd rather make a dishonest nickel than an honest dime."
• "I return threats with flattery."
• "In discourse, I might properly disagree with another speaker, but always reluctantly, with a spirit of accommodation in my tender heart."
• "I simply cannot win for losing."
• "There's more to the truth than just the facts."
• "Nonsense!"
• "To lie or not to lie, that is the question."
• "Marcus C - I'd rather listen to the violins than the rap. They have more to say.
• Barbara Blachut - man, that's deep
• Marcus C- pff, that's nothing ;)"
• "Tener la conciencia limpia es sintoma de mala memoria."
• "Yo no sufro de locura... la disfruto a cada minuto."
• "Never give the fuckin' putas nada."
• "Todo es mejor si es importado, especialmente las mujeres."
• "Si mi amigo, tener muchas novias es un hobby muy caro... pero soy hecho de oro solido. Entonces cuando me corto las unas, puedo usarlas para comprar lo que quiere mi mujer.. y mi saliva tiene un precio de mas de mi coche. Todo esta bien porque lo que ellas no saben no hace dano a nadie, y la ignorancia sigue siendo la beatitud."
• "Beat me up, drug me, throw me outta the back of a moving helicopter in pitchblack starless night anywhere in nyc/long island.. ill be able to walk my way there."
• "i forgot to add throw my phone in the hudson"
• "Never trust"
• "Instant regret"
• "I have an INFINITE amount of work"
• "I value time more than money. Always have, and I hope I always will."

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• "Aut inveniam viam aut faciam." - Hannibal
• “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.” -Hunter S. Thompson
• "Illusion is the first of all pleasures." - Oscar Wilde
• "Hope for the best, plan for the worst"
• "Deserve Victory!" - Winston Churchill
• "A million million spermatozoa All of them alive; Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive." - unknown
• "Power is when we have every justification to kill and we don't." - Oskar Schindler
• "I pardon you" ^

• "I'm not going to be remembered. I'm not going to die. I refuse." - A.L.
• "Bow down to my will, you peasant." - A.L.
• "I replace your actual intelligence with an approximation that better suits my ego." - A.L.

• Garry Kasparov: http://news.stanford.edu/news/1999/april28/kasparov-428.html
• "I think from my own experience that psychological stress is far more dangerous than physiological stress, because psychological stress can happen on its own and always leads to physical weakness."
• "What we were witnessing was some sort of artificial intelligence," he added. "And I think that's what chess could contribute to the computer science field, because only in chess do you have this very thin and subtle balance between creativity and calculation."
• "I want to keep playing until my son can recognize who his father is," he said about his 4-year-old.

• KAFKA:
• "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin."
• "From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached." - Franz Kafka
• "A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us." - Franz Kafka
• "God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them." Franz Kafka

• "To observe with­out think­ing is as dan­ger­ous as to think with­out observ­ing." - Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Spanish pathologist, histologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate

• "Even a dragon is humble as a kitten if it thinks itself a slave."

• "Physics: it's like the bastard lovechild of math and science."

• "La poesía no quiere adeptos, quiere amantes." - Federico García Lorca

• "By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more." -Albert Camus

• "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
• "It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step in its waters." - Friedrich Nietzsche
• "Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity." - Vladimir Nabokov
• "Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks"
• "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."
• "The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach."

"Al Pacino: Don't be coy, Charlie. This woman is made for you. I can feel it. Goddamn beautiful, isn't she? Charlie: She's not bad. Al Pacino: Bingo! The boy's alive. Come on, son. Perambulate, Perambulate. Excuse me, señorita, do you mind if we join you? I'm feelin' you're being neglected. Donna: Well, I'm expecting somebody. Al Pacino: Instantly? Donna: No, but any minute now. Al Pacino: Any minute? Some people live a lifetime in a minute. What are you doin' right now? Donna: I'm waiting for him. Al Pacino: Well, would you mind if we waited with you, you know... just to keep the, eh, womanizers from bothering you? Donna: No, I don't mind." - Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in5EPHVgcXg

• "The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good." - Gordon Gekko

• "Right. Because you never get what you want. Your life is just an orgy of deprivation" - Gus Altobello

• "Better to avoid getting into a tempting situation than to quote Oscar Wilde at the top, Marcus" - Kate Xiaoxiao Yuan

• "For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. For the people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."

--John Lennon, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYZSEWM6ZlU

• "All these science spheres are made of asbestos by the way, keeps out the rats. Let us know if you feel a shortness of breath, a persistent dry cough or your heart stopping, because that's not part of the test - that's asbestos." - Cave Johnson
• "Good news is, the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of forty-four point six years, so if you're thirty or older, you're laughing. Worst case scenario, you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punched those numbers into my calculator, and it makes a happy face." - more Cave Johnson, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9neQoJsAEk

• "I'm doing science, and I'm still alive." - GlaDos

• "He's smitbaws. stabbing me in the back as we speak." - House

• "Principles for the development of a complete mind: Study the science of art, Study the art of science, Develop your senses - especially learn how to see, Realize that everything connects to everything else." - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

• "You're pulling a John Lennon, Marcus, and that's cool!"- don't ask

• “Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.” - Jack Woodford
• "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• "We Spanish suffer from a strange disease of the heart, for which the only known remedy is gold" - Hernán Cortés
• "I'm here to win the gold, not to plow the land like a peasant" - Hernán Cortés

• After an elegantly expressed impromtu rant... "Please note that this ^ was an impromptu rant expressing frustration with irrational sociological advancement. It may contain inconsistencies or statements that some might find offensive. Please note than any such comments are not intended and are a product of revisionary neglect." - Victor Leung

• "Music is the sound of life; of our feelings and of our dreams. Music is voice given to inexplicable thoughts; the expression of emotions that words can never capture. Music is the sustenance of artists who paint with sound. Musicians breathe music the same way others breathe air..." ~ Victor Leung

• The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell

• http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2223#comic

• I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

--Mcc38 01:33, 12 October 2012 (EDT)Marcus Christopher Coleman