I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.”
“If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.”
Source: Mathematics, queen and servant of science
“If independence is your right, then accountability is your duty - without accountability there is no difference between an independent human and an independent animal.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.”
Source: Indian Home Rule
“If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“If India fails in diversity, so will the world.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them whatever you can, hamburgers and KFCs. Its the middle classes who have moved into being able to own a car, a refrigerator. For them there is this mantra that the General Electric refrigerator is better than some other model, that the Cielo car is fancier than the Ambassador.”
“If India is computer, Congress is its default program.”
“If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.”
Source: Bulletin
“If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.”
Source: My Picture of Free India
“If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.” When I told my friends about the upcoming trip, everyone purred about what a great time I’d have, told me to take a lot of photos, told me to eat everything. But if you’re going to India to see your family, you’re not going to relax, you’re not going to have a nice time. No, you’re going so you can touch the very last of your bloodline, to say hello to the new ones and goodbye to the older ones, since who knows when you’ll visit again. You are working.”
Source: One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
“If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.”
Source: More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism
“If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.”
“If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?”
Source: The Church in the Workplace: How God's People Can Transform Society
“If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.”
Source: No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed
“If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so.
(I - The Great Leap Backwards)”
Source: The Unconscious Civilization
“If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.”
“If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.”
Source: future shock
“If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.”
Source: Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect
“If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.”
“If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one”
“If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.”
“If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.”
“If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.”
“If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.”
“If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?”
“If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.”
“If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.”
“If ingenuity is an indicator of how much we love someone, then the story of Christmas is about as ingenious as you can get.”
“If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.”
“If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.”
“If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.”
“If inner beauty really mattered, gyms wouldn't have been so crowded & libraries so empty...”
“If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is to a schoolboy. It is just because he does not want to steal, because he does not covet his neighbour's goods, that he has captured the trick (oh, how we all long for it!), the trick of coveting his own goods. It is just because he does not want to commit adultery that he achieves the romance of sex; it is just because he loves one wife that he has a hundred honeymoons.”
Source: Manalive
“If input exceeds output you better enjoy it”
Source: Trust me, I'm a Salesman: How to Earn Customers through Trust and Value
“If insanity is contagious, and it is, so is sanity. Sanity is more contagious than insanity. It's just that there aren't enough carriers. Become a source of infectious sanity.”
Source: The Varkaus Conspiracy
“If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.”
“If insolvency is not transparent or well understood, and if illiquidity is backstopped by the Federal Reserve, then why do bank runs commence? The answer is psychology. Some customers or counterparties come to believe a bank will not repay them so they pull their money out or close transactions as quickly as possible. They are not reassured by ... press releases or positive comments by management. Word spreads, the withdrawals accelerate, and within days, sometimes hours, the bank closes its doors. From there it's an open issue whether the lost confidence spreads to other banks, in a process called contagion. No amount of capital or comment can stop a bank panic; it has a life of its own.
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Enter AI. The next bank run may be triggered not by human panic but by AI imitating human panic. An AI bank analysis program with deeply layered neural networks and machine learning capability (perhaps complimented by a GPT capacity to speak with human analysts) Could read millions of pages of financial data on thousands of individual banks, far more than any team of human analysts could review. It's training set of materials provides familiarity with the dynamics of bank runs, basically an emerging property of a complex dynamic system, along with historical examples, worst case scenarios, and defensive moves. Events like the gold corner of 1869, the panic of 1907, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the S&L crisis of the 1980s would all seem as fresh as today's news. This system would reach the same conclusion as a human analyst — move first, get your money out fast, don't be the last in line.
The true danger is not that the machine thinks like a human — it's supposed to. The danger is that it can act faster and communicate with other machines.”
Source: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy
“If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.”
“If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.”
“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”
“If instead of arranging the atoms in some definite pattern, again and again repeated, on and on, or even forming little lumps of complexity like the odor of violets, we make an arrangement which is always different from place to place, with different kinds of atoms arranged in many ways, continually changing, not repeating, how much more marvelously is it possible that this thing might behave? Is it possible that that "thing" walking back and forth in front of you, talking to you, is a great glob of these atoms in a very complex arrangement, such that the sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do? When we say we are a pile of atoms, we do not mean we are merely a pile of atoms, because a pile of atoms which is not repeated from one to the other might well have the possibilities which you see before you in the mirror.”
Source: Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
“If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.”
“If instead of trying to manage your time, you clearly set your Priorities, time will arrange itself around them.”
Source: Ambition to Vision
“If, instead of Wainwright's question, we ask 'What were the Picts?', the answer is very simple. They were a nation created by the union of a number of tribes. This union, formed initially as a military alliance against the common enemy, stood the test of time and long outlived the Roman invasion. For the last seventeen centuries the peoples of this union have been known collectively as the Picts, a name first recorded by the Romans. The name itself is a familiar part of the problem: did Picti really mean 'the painted men, or was it simply the Latin form of a long-forgotten native name? Puting this question on one side for the moment, we might refer to the Picts as 'The United Tribes of Caledonia', or UTC for short, a name which tells us just what they really were.”
Source: The Age of the Picts
“If instead policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.The first country that implemented this participatory program of assessment, research and policy development was Brazil. I was one of the outsiders who provided support to the initiative.”
“If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to 100 percent that you are dealing with a sociopath.”
Source: The Sociopath Next Door