Arnold Schwarzenegger

breakdown

causality

class

classical music

common sense

curling

disco

fiction

George W. Bush

humor

Judith Krantz

machine

Margaret Thatcher

Marilyn Monroe

Pablo Picasso

privilege

sense of human

sense of humor

snooker

stupidity

Sydney Opera House

television

wine

occupation / innovator as

literary critic

nationality

Australian

British

broadcaster

religion

atheism

poet

television presenter

scientific organization

Royal Society of Literature

cause of death

natural causes

is a window into the essence of a thing. It is only when machines go wrong that they remind you how powerful they are.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

is associated with increased predictability.

There are three main definitions of causation that can be used to devise computational models. Some theorist equated causality with increased predictability leading to Granger-causality tests (Granger 1969... Gelper and Crux 2007).

1s 2ssence is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivation.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivation.

is the same thing as a sense of humor, just moving at a different speed. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same things, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

is a form of music with no syncopation, and only the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Disco dancing is really dancing for people who hate dancing, since the beat is so monotonous. There is no syncopation, just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

*All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

is (or rather a sense of humor is) the same thing as common sense, but moving at a different speed.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

reminds you how powerful they are only when they go wrong.

is perfect, and it is only when they go wrong that they really remind you how powerful they are.

is good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

is so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable.

is rooted in a dual demand: first, that the privileged need to be conscious of their privileges, and secondly, that the deprived be fully conscious of their deprivation.

is the same thing as common sense, just moving at a different speed. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

 looks like a typewriter full of oyster shells, like a broken Pyrex casserole dish in a brown cardboard box.

(of Sydney Opera House) It looks like a typewriter full of oyster shells... like a broken Pyrex casserole dish in a brown cardboard box.

is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

is fine wine when it merely stained your teeth without stripping the enamel.

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