“Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.” WayWantHardGovernmentLeftGrowthEconomyPicksExpensiveDevicesLoserBankingStripesHard Way Author:Frances O'Grady
“Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.” WritingTryingHardMightNovelFiguresConsciousMadDevicesCompelling Author:Sarah Waters
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.” ThinkingWayWantShouldLooksKindTwoBookIdeasDifferentHardUseProblemOpinionWonderfulWrittenMagicFiguresHigherMachinesIntelligentMethodSolveDevicesArtificial IntelligenceDifferent KindsBulletsAdministrativeIntelligent Machines Author:Marvin Minsky
“The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.” WayHardReasonHelpingLawLinesToo MuchGroupsConcernedRoundsLawyerSupposed To BeWheelsDevicesServingCivilizedFiringFrictionSquadGuillotine Author:Fred Rodell
“Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.” TryingHardEnoughEnjoyWaterHoursNeededMouthsFollowingMilesMealsTortureFuelDevicesHikingJuiceCaloriesSnacksGatorade Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis
“Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic” HardLanguageGrowthDevicesDictionaryLiterary Devices Book:The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions) Source: The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)