“The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.” IfsLooksTwoRealHomeChristianityLordFitTestsTablesCoffeeCupsSundayBreakfastHypocriteBenchesPiousCoffee Cup Author:Vance Havner
“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.” HomeMotivationBitsClearTerribleBehaviorConsequenceTestsHarderMotivatedBuriedLabsBad BehaviorControl Ourselves Author:Ben Marcus
“Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.” IfsFeelsWellsHomeWould BeAmericaHalfDemocracyTestsSafetyWell BeingDozenUnbelievers Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.” PeopleProblemHomeResultsCallingTestsCustomers Author:Iimani David
“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.” BelieveHumansHas BeensImportantHomeUnderstandingNumbersCenturyFieldsSceneComputerTestsMachinesExcitingBritishLondonSufficientConvinceArtificial IntelligenceArtificialRoyalControversialFittingIconicMilestoneLandmarks Author:Kevin Warwick
“One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.” ShouldTwoHomeTogetherCoursesSexCausesCoupleProjectsTestsUltimateFinalsDivorceImprovementBoardsEngagedKitchenWorking TogetherWhy NotFinishingMandatesBasementsExamIncompatibilityLeading CausesKitchen SinksHome ImprovementFinal Exams Author:Mike Rosen
“Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.” PlayHomeValuesLosesShotsTestsGreenGolfCeaseCommandStrokes Author:A. W. Tillinghast
“I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?” PeopleWantChildrenIdeasHomeTogetherParentLonelyTestsWhy NotOld PeopleCombiningOrphanage Author:Zhou Xun
“And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.” IfsThinkingMayHomeLastsCenturyWindTestsThirdsPregnancyIphoneAppsPregnancy Test Book:Lizz Free or Die: Essays Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays