Alan Quotes

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I was a dummy in school.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come

A country song is a song about life.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.