Alan Quotes
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
