Egocêntrico
Dec 29 '09
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“The brain is an organ that builds models and makes creative predictions, but its models and predictions can easily be specious as valid. Our brains are always looking at patterns and making analogies. If correct correlations cannot be found, the brain is more than happy to accept false ones. Pseudoscience, bigotry, faith, and intolerance are often rooted in false analogy.”
— Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence
Dec 29 '09
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
— Clarke’s third law - Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of The Future”, 1961
Dec 29 '09
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“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
— Clarke’s second law - Arthur C. Clarke, “Technology and the Future”
Dec 29 '09
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“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
— Clarke’s first law - Arthur C. Clarke
Dec 29 '09
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infundice
infundice
(infundir + -ice)
s. f.
Barrela feita de urina em que se demolhava a roupa muito suja, para depois se lavar mais facilmente. = infundiça
Confrontar: infundisse.
Dec 29 '09
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“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
Dec 29 '09
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“I don’t believe in Global Warming” by Banksy. - http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/12/21/i-dont-believe-in-global-warming/
Dec 29 '09
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“Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
Dec 29 '09
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“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
Dec 29 '09
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I’m saying.”
— Oscar Wilde