These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
"If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time."
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
(In a debate with one of George Bernard Shaw=s disciples) Jackson: 'Truth is one's own conception of things.' Chesterton: 'The Big Blunder. All thought is an attempt to discover if one's own conception is true or not….' Jackson: 'Theology and religion are not the same thing. When churches are controlled by the theologians religious people stay away.' Chesterton: 'Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.' By: G.K. Chesterton Source: Chesterton Review, vol. XIV, no. 4, page 542-9
[After describing an experiment in which a neural network playing Civilization was given random text from the Wall Street Journal as data as well as a copy of the owner's manual. It only won 17% of the time without some additional input, it won 40% of the time with the Wall Street Journal, and it won 54% of the time with the user's manual.] This is clearly true; the software would perform better when it was given the owner’s manual than when it was fed random text, and the difference was statistically significant. But simply giving it any text resulted in a larger relative boost. That implies that it’s better to have some rules to work with, no matter how they’re derived, than no guidance at all.