Lotfi A. Zadeh On Complexity and Precision (1965 Quote)

'As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision.'

~ Lotfi A. Zadeh (1965)
(Inventor & developer of the field of “fuzzy logic”)


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Samuel Taylor Coleridge On Christianity and Truth (1825 Quote)

'He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.'

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1825)


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Milton Friedman On Equality and Freedom (1980 Quote)

'A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.'

~ Milton Friedman (1980)


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Jeremy Bentham On Punishment (1789 Quote)

'All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.'

~ Jeremy Bentham (1789)

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Mao Zedong On Politics and War (1938 Quote)

'Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.'

~ Mao Zedong (1938)


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Bertrand Russell On The Cosmological Argument (1964 Quote)

'The universe is just there and that's all.'

~ Bertrand Russell (1964)


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Ludwig Wittgenstein On Language and Meaning (Lion Quote)

'If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.'

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953)


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