W Quotes
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“We should therefore welcome with open arms computers that are vastly more powerful than our brains, safe in the knowledge that our job is exponentially easier than theirs. They have to solve the problems; we just have to check that they did so to our satisfaction. AIs will think fast what we think slow, and the world will be the better for it. I, for one, welcome our new robot underlings.”
Source: The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
“We should think about our strengths, priorities and goals, which will further help us manage our mind and commit ourselves to success.”
“We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.”
“We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.”
“we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.”
Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.”
“We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.”
“We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?”
“We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.”
“We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.”
“We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.”
“We should totally rely on God, then our success will always be stable and nothing would be able to shake it”
“We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.”
“We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.”
Source: Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century
“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.”
“We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.”
“We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, regardless of whether they are gay or straight. We should prioritise virtue over desire. We should not assume that any given feelings we discover in our hearts (or our loins) ought to be acted upon”
Source: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
“We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.”
“We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.”
“We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.”
“We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.”
“We should try to be happy, just to set an example”
“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”
“We should try to become better people, ethically speaking, reflect upon ourselves and our very limited existences and develop a sense of tolerance for each other, as well as for other anarchist groups with which we may disagree. But we're not committed to toeing a line called anarchism; there are many different anarchisms.”
“We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.”
“We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.”
“We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.”
“We should try to explain ourselves only to those who value us in their life.”
“We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.”
“We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.”
“We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.”
“We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.”
“We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make a difference, whether it is to probe the secrets of Nature, to clean up the environment and work for peace and social justice, or to nurture the inquisitive, vibrant spirit of the young by being a mentor and a guide.”
“We should try to live a life of a human once before we die, because there is a difference between having a life and living a life.”
Source: The Cavalier
“We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough.
[Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]”
“We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.”
“We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.”
“We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!”
“We should understand that dream symbols are for the most part manifestations of a psyche that is beyond the control of the conscious mind. Meaning and purposefulness are not the prerogatives of the mind; they operate in the whole of living nature. There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols. Every dream is evidence of this process.”
Source: Man and His Symbols: A Popular Presentation of the Essential Ideas of Jungian Psychology with Over 500 Illustrations
“We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.”
“We should understand that our problems do not exist outside of ourself, but are part of our mind that experiences unpleasant feelings.”
Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra
“We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.”
“We should understand the mother and child as a mutually responsive dyad. They are a symbiotic unit that make each other healthier and happier in mutual responsiveness. This expands to other caregivers too.
-Darcia Narvaez”
Source: Impact of Sleep Training and Cry it Out: Excerpt from The Science of Mother-Infant Sleep
“We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and the four-legged and winged peoples; and even more important, we should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples. When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.”
“We should use all our money for the Lord. This is, we should use all our money in a way that God would approve. In that sense, all of our money is to be given to the Lord. Stewardship is to be total, not partial.”
“We should use artificial intelligence as a learning tool and not as a copy and paste method”
“We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep [Vladimir] Putin contained, because he is a one-horse show. Energy. And we have an abundance of energy, but we have archaic energy exportation rules. We need to get rid of those, allow ourselves to really make Europe dependent on us and other parts of the world dependent on us for energy. Put him back in his little box where he belongs.”
“We should use our imagination more than our memory.”
“We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.”