- "...lead to something we call hallucination." Prabhakar Raghavan, SVP and head of Google Search, to to Welt am Sonntag. [welt2202]
- Ted Chiang, "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web," The New Yorker, 2023-02-09.
- "...notorious bullshitters..." Melissa Heikkilä, "Why you shouldn't trust AI search engines", MIT Technology Review, 2023-02-14.
- "Deep learning has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence...." Comment by "Rebel Science" on Gary Marcus, "A Few Words About Bullshit: How MetaAI's Galactica just jumped the shark"
- "...confident bullshitters..." Melissa Heikkilä, "How AI-generated text is poisoning the Internet" MIT Technology Review, 2022-12-20
- Ian Bogost, "Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?"
- Emily Bender, "devalue themselves," from ["You Are Not a Parrot,"][ny230301] New York magazine, 2023-03-01. Also see "Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form and Understanding in the Age of Data." [bend20]
- Wolfram, "make the neural net do as little as possible" [wolf23]
- Ian Bogost, "The End of Recommendation Letters", theatlantic.com, 2023-04-20
- Amanda Mull, "Chatbots Sound Like They’re Posting on LinkedIn", The Atlantic 2023-04-25.
- "...teaching it what kind of responses human users actually prefer." Will Douglas Heaven, "The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it," MIT Technology Review, 2023-03-03.
- "ChatGPT fails a lot...." [mittr230303] --Kelli María Korducki, "The Goopification of AI"
Lily Tomlin, never enough to keep up: quoted on [badsci] with source
[tomquot] (archive), attributing to The Search for Signs
of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner, linking to a
.mov clip on [paulpump] that I couldn't play.
- Simplicity. Some argument about this at wikiquote because Hoare had "The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity" in his 1980 Turing Award lecture "The Emperor's Old Clothes", but the transcription of 1975 ewd498 mentions it as a "handwritten annotation."
- Null objection: Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
- Friedman "only one social responsibility of business." This particular quote apparently from the book Captialism and Freedom, but the idea is better known from the NYT article A Friedman doctrine‐- The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits (1970-09-13). Also at Maximizing Profits: Milton Friedman.
- John Honovich quoted in Timothy McLaughlin, "The Tech Site That Took On China's Surveillance State", The Atlantic.
- José María Arizmendiarrieta quotes from Reflections at ariz.
- "Being realistic and pragmatic...." Translation in Reflections_ is terible.
Got a better one from @juanse_gcoop_arg in Patio Mattermost chat, but the
current one is mine, based on Google Translate. Original:
- Ser realistas y pragmáticos no quiere decir renunciar a los ideales, que no deben ser confundidos con quimeras y bellos sueños, sino aceptados como objetivos a realizar.
- dream hampton, quoted in "Hip-hop’s Fiercest Critic" by Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic Oct. 2023.
- Kurt Vonnegut/Darius Bacon, quoted at Max Bernstein, Lisp implementations. The original poem is from Cat's Cradle, with "Man" instead of "Lisper," and "'why, why, why?'".
- Lamport, sloppy: Specifying Systems, quoted on axiom why lit.
- Bhāskara: mentioned in lecture by Sarah Hart, "Where do Mathematical Symbols Come From?" https://youtu.be/Edewyp87W-Q?t=1482
- "pre-16th century notation": Hart lecture above.
- Quoted by Chris Bernhardt in Turing's Vision, MIT Press, 2016 (Kindle):
- p.18 Bertrand Russell, …a beauty cold and asture… From Mysticism and Logic: And Other Essays p.60;
- p.21 Bertrand Russell, …never know what we are talking about…
- "(i.e. error)" Terrance Tao commenting on The ABC conjecture has (still) not been proved
- Gorka, what you do for free: found at axiom-readme.
- Stephen Fry on American vs. British comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao
- Hamming, knowing what you are doing, found at http://worrydream.com/dbx/
- Philip K. Dick, "Reality is..." from "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later," 1978. https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html
- "To have a child is to give fate a hostage." Attributed to John F. Kennedy in Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People who Cook. But much earlier, Francis Bacon: "he that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue of mischief."
- Tim Harford, "A simple untruth..." and "Agnotology." From "The problem with facts," Financial Times 2017-03-09. Quoted by Adrian Nathan West, "What Does a Fact Look Like?", The Baffler 2021-06-16. https://www.ft.com/content/eef2e2f8-0383-11e7-ace0-1ce02ef0def9 https://thebaffler.com/latest/what-does-a-fact-look-like-west
- "Barn doors for example." Bill Herd on C128 https://www.reddit.com/r/c128/comments/682da4/c128_ama_from_bil_herd/dgwr4h1
- "black studies as such," CLR James. Cannot find original 1969 article with quote. Quoted in: https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/36695/How+Marxist+historian+CLR+James+understood+racism+and+revolutions and from another source perhaps quoted in https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/aug/05/paul-gilroy-britain-scholar-race-humanism-vital-guide-age-of-crisis
- "...world is full of narcissists..." David Brooks, "Truly Humbled to Be the Author of This Article," The Atlantic 2022-07-03 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/humility-tweet-self-promotion/661444/
- "thinking about what you're doing" https://archive.org/details/communicatingthr00wilk/page/n4/mode/1up
- "You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?" Mentioned on Wikipedia page for Three Days of the Condor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor#Cultural_legacy Director Sydney Pollack has admitted to using variations of that line in three of his other films: Tootsie (1982), The Firm (1993), and The Interpreter (2005).
- "the web is not a free market of information" Edward Helmore summarising an interview with Jaron Lanier (American computing scientist and coiner of the term "virtual reality") in "'Extinction is on the table': Jaron Lanier warns of tech's existential threat to humanity," The Guardian 2022-11-27 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/27/jaron-lanier-tech-threat-humanity-twitter-social-media
- "Engineering Method": engineerguy (Bill Hamack), "Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained"
- "PowerPoint corrupts." Vinct Cerf quoted in AP article by Rachel Konrad
- Fischer Scientific Water MSDS.
- Leibovitz, "Death of a Ladies' Man"
- Shulman, quoted in Broken Ties @1:10:12
- "Religion is an identity..." "Peter"
- Seneca, "On a Happy Life" from Dialogues
- Stenner & Haidt, "Authoritarianism is Not a Momentary Madness," essay
from Can It Happen Here, quoted in Pacific Standard article.
- "About a third of white responders acrosss 29 liberal democracies proved to be authoritarian to some degree."
- "The things that multiculturalists believe will help people appreciate and thrive in democracy—appreciating difference, talking about difference, displaying and applauding difference—are the very conditions that encourage authoritarians not to heights of tolerance, but to their intolerant extremes."
- Boris Johnson, "...Tory party's soul...." Quoted in The Atlantic, "The Tears of a Clown"atl2201
- "You in Britian are Moscow in about 1988." Quoted in The Guardian, "A new series immerses us in Russia's 90s trauma – and the human cost of economic shock" by Marina Hyde. [hyde220930]
- "psychological management of uncertainty and fear". Original quote from Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. (2003a). Political conservatism as motivatedsocial cognition.Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339–375. Quoted in Jost et al. "The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind"[jost2008], in turn quoted in Edsall, "Studies: Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From Venus" (The Atlantic 2012-02-07) [atl-12-02-07].
- Reihan Salam, "Searchining for a Conservatism of Normalcy", The Atlantic, 2023-04-25. Quoting from Samuel P. Huntington, "Conservatism as an Ideology", 1957.
- Altemeyer, "whereas leftists can be downright suspicious of people who might have nefarious reasons for agreeing with them..." alte2305
- Aaron Bushnell paraphrasing Mikhail Bakunin quoted in "Aaron Bushnell’s Agonies", New York magazine, 2024-06-19.
- Wilson, standards of proof: found at axiom-readme.
- Henney, incomprehensible code: found at axiom-readme, originally henney.
- Hoare, top-down programming: quoted in Let Over Lambda ch.5.
- Eghbal, "Open source is...a positive externality...." Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. Stripe Press, 2020.
- Archambault, "Engineering is Greek for tradeoff analysis." Quoted by Eric Bogatin in The Value of the White Space
- Mike Stay, save the environment from [mo 1083].
- Don Eyles, lapidary; WSJ interview, July 2019
- "The Secret Lives of Hackathon Junkies" atl 2015-07-09
- Hoare, PL designer responsible for mistakes made by programmers using the language. Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
- Rob Pike on Go, quoted at go iterator design
- Nat Howard, "as bad as it can possibly be," quoted by ranum-20m22