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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can read more
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
 O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and 
expeller of vices! What could we and every age of read more 
 O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and 
expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been 
without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men 
scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
 [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, 
expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita 
hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu 
dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.] 
 The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own 
Weakness and inability in necessary things.  
 The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own 
Weakness and inability in necessary things. 
Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
 Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
 And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
  Whate'er the crabbed'st read more 
 Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
 And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,
   He understood b' implicit faith. 
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for read more
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am read more
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices read more
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
 The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our 
difference: to be in hell is to drift: to read more 
 The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our 
difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to 
steer.