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"Since I am a Lisp programmer, the positions of parentheses and quotes are terribly inconvenient. Typewriter paired keyboards had parentheses on 9 and 0, while logical-paired keyboards had parentheses on 8 and 9. I also disliked the narrow keys on some Personal Computers."

"The TRON Project was not influential on the HHKB, although I know Ken Sakamura, the project leader, well. Or do you mean TRON keyboard? I have never seen it. TRON lives in a different world."

"When America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces."

"Newcomers might see the slanted key arrangement as strange, and love the squared ortholinear layout. But the current pattern is said to avoid the type bar conflict. *The present key arrangement has a functional beauty. Many typists and computer scientists are fully accustomed to it. Once accustomed, human beings can have a hard time learning the slightly different interface. Keyboards should maintain the present layout."

"Countries that once welcomed missionaries have now become countries from which missionaries leave. The Gospel is always the same, the way of evangelization changes, but the Church is missionary by nature and always will be."

"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from."

"This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work."

"On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area"

"OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic"

"If AGI came way sooner than expected we would definitely want to be careful about it. We might want to slow down a little bit on training and deployment until we're pretty sure we know we can deal with it safely"

"Everyone needs to agree on some reasonable limits to deployment or to further training, for this to work. Otherwise, you have the race dynamics where everyone's trying to stay ahead, and that might require compromising on safety"

"pause either further training, or pause deployment, or avoiding certain types of training that we think might be riskier. So just setting up some reasonable rules for what everyone should do to having everyone somewhat limit these things"

"if European scholars and historians are truthfully interested in the pursuit of knowledge, they will learn Marathi and read my books."

"Marathi is today the language of a conquered people which is why it is neglected so thoroughly. Had it been the language of a ruling and independent nation, it would have been carefully studied even by Westerners and the fame of Marathi writers would have spread on the continent of Europe."

"The refined Marathi in which the literature of the past seven or eight centuries is written has become the object of love equally to all the Marathas inhabiting the various districts of Maharashtra and the various (Indian) states such as Baroda, Indore, Gwalior, Bundelkhand, Tanjore, Gooty, Bellary and others. T here is no wonder that the cultured language in which gifted writers like Mukundraj, Dnyaneshwar, Suryajyotishi, Ekanath, Tukaram, Ramdas, Moropant, and Chiplunkar wrote their works, should be respected alike by people of all districts and of all communities. A provincial language is coextensive with the boundaries of the province and the communal dialect with the community, but the literary language used in writing and speech is meant for the entire Maharashtra. Small peculiarities of provincial minor dialects and the puerile corruptions met with in communal brogue, pale into insignificance in the royal court of the literary language and the only one pure mother tongue of the Marathas becomes the object of pride, wonder and spontaneous affection to all the people in the country. The pride which the Marathas feel for their language is not vain. No language in the world can equal Marathi in respect of abundance of its vocabulary. Moreover, the fact that many gifted and great writers have clothed their sublime, grave, romantic and charming thoughts in this language has only led to the gradual growth of affection, in ever increasing measure in the people of Maharashtra for this language."

"Historians like Sarkar, Dr Romesh Chandra Majumdar, Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade, Raghubir Singh, Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar, Govind Sakharam Sardesai and several contemporaries of theirs, many of whom shone in brilliance even under colonial rule, are in my view exemplars of what fact-based, dispassionate historians are."

"The big obstacle, though it's not an obstacle because I think it will just take time, is the computer has to learn more about the way we see the world."

"It's very hard to understand the world from a human perspective. Intelligence relies on the way we view the world as humans, and the way we think about the world."

"Computers are just starting to be able to hear and starting to being able to see images. Those are tremendous improvements in the field in the last five years."

"We're doing that by having computers read millions of texts and pages from the web, by hooking them up to cameras and moving them around human environments."

"He did not get a lot of headcount. He started the thing as a 20% project,Then he just recruited an army of 20% helpers who were ignoring their day jobs and just helping him with this system."

"He built something really cool that actually worked, while other people were building systems that were just failing."

"I think it was just a matter of large companies having concerns about launching projects that can say anything, how much you're risking versus how much you have to gain from it."

"I want to cooperate in the gradual expansion of sections while thoroughly ensuring quality control, and contribute to offing two birds with one stone by solving labor shortages and tackling energy conservation."

"Many people never even thought about storing data for thousands of years. This may sound like a dream. But we're thinking hundreds of millions of years."

"The most important thing is to maintain the quality of the product. Of course if it’s too expensive it doesn’t mean anything so we have to focus on efficiency and kaizen constant improvement to eliminate waste at our plants in order to make quality products at a competitive price."

"So the price is the result of our efforts at improving efficiency. Emerging countries are very aggressive with their cheaper labor cost and we have to survive against them."

"AI is a “fundamentally useful technology”, It harnesses lots of different varieties of maths to solve problems, but as it grows we’ll increasingly need human context and human understanding. The organisations who are going to win will be those who bring those things together in the most effective, inclusive, empathetic way."

"We've been incorporating automation in our factories within Japan that manufacture cam units and the oilless bearing units. But the purpose is not to automate for automation’s sake alone. We needed to have efficiency in terms of production at lower cost, so we introduced automation within that new framework of improved efficiency and once we’ve established the system in Japan we will spread it throughout our factories globally."

"I knew I was designing something disruptive and innovative, but never imagined bitcoin would have this level of adoption in such a short period of time."

"It’s the technology that powers bitcoin, the truly revolutionary part of this invention, everyone is fascinated by blockchain."

"Don’t wait for permission — make your place, and then open the door for others."

"There are some roses that always flower late, not just in a freak year. I always enjoy November roses, whether it is 'Madame Abel Chatenay', that wreathes the dining-room window, or , who pops up from behind the barton wall at a time when I thought all good roses had gone to sleep."

"If the flower spikes are kept cut the makes good cover because the roots are strong and the beetroot-colored leaves quite big. The plants should be put fairly close together and soon colonise if all the spikes are not removed very quickly."

"s are particularly valuable for the winter and one in particular, , is a good all-the-year plant for a place in the garden that is in constant use. I noticed a very happy and very natural treatment of a bed next to the porch of a front door."

"It is not possible to make sweeping statements about what will or will not grow in clay soil, because there are so many different types of clay. Some are much stickier and more difficult to handle than others; clay that has been made easier to handle by the addition of will grow most plants. I don't believe there is any soil that will not grow something."

"believed in manuring with a very generous hand and woe betide any little plant of mine that grew nearby, as it would surely die of suffocation under the great gallops of manure that were plastered round every rose. All the manure we could get was devoted to the roses and s."

"holidays— and 1st of November—were our aim for the ceremonies of ."

"All the from my open fires is shared among the plants that particularly like , s and es particularly, and I give some to the , and in the winter the apple trees get their share. When I grew potatoes and es they, too, were lucky."

"If ever a garden was born of creative tension, it is the one at in . When Margery Fish moved there with her husband, in 1937, she wished to fill beds with simple cottage garden plants; he desired neat lawns, straight paths and bright summer bedding. Margery went on to record their battle for control in her 1956 book, We Made A Garden; with its passive aggressive tone, it is as much about their marriage as the garden, yet it is still a horticultural classic to be read and re-read., In the end, Margery won: Walter died in 1947, and with him the need to compromise. In 1951, she wrote her first piece on gardening for , and went on to publish numerous magazine articles and eight books."

"The gardener Margery Fish married , the tyrannical editor of , and they moved out of London to where a regimented, formal garden was created. After he died she uprooted the lot and started again, to create a romanitc oasis, now designated by as a ."

"Margery Fish, who published eight gardening books in the 1950s and 1960s, was, with Sackville-West and , one of the leading English s of her day. She began late, in her 40s, and We Made A Garden tells us how it happened."

"I am a Professor in Applied Computational Logic at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, and academic member of the Distributed Software Engineering Section."

"I lead the Structured and Probabilistic Knowledge Engineering (SPIKE) research group and my research interests are in foundation AI and applications to real-world problems. Specifically, I have led the pioneering of several state-of-the-art symbolic machine learning systems and widely applied them to the areas of Intelligent Adaptive Systems, Security, Network Management, Distributed Control Systems for Sensor Networks, and Healthcare. My research interests include Computational Logic, Planning, Symbolic Machine Learning, Probabilistic and Distributed Inference, Neuro-symbolic AI and Robustness of Generative Models."

"This project is funded by the International Technology Alliance programme in Network and Information Science between UK (MoD) and US (ARL). It investigates security in tactical clouds from two different perspectives: i) development of a declarative infrastructure for agile, robust, and scalable de-centralized security policy adaptation mechanisms for tactical clouds, and ii) decomposition of network functions (e.g. firewalls, NAT or load balancing proxies) to cope with specific network and computing limitations of the physical deployment environments and the changing characteristics of the tactical clouds. The Principal Investigator is Dr Alessandra Russo and the research is conducted in collaboration with Dr Jorge Lobo, from ICREA – UPF, Professor Peng Liu from Pennsylvania State University, and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, New York, USA."

"EPSRC project on privacy management looking at investigating how individuals learn and benefit from their membership of social or functional groups, and how such learning can be automated and incorporated into modern mobile and ubiquitous technologies that increasingly pervade society. The Principal Investigator is Dr Alessandra Russo. The project is in collaboration with the Open University and the University of Exeter. It is a three years project started in November 2013."

"Organisations, small and large, increasingly rely upon cloud environments to supply their ICT needs because clouds provide a better incremental cost structure, resource elasticity and simpler management. This trend is set to continue as increasingly information collected from mobile devices and smart environments including homes, infrastructures and smart-cities is uploaded and processed in cloud environments. Services delivered to users are also deployed in the cloud as this provides better scaleability and in some cases permits migration closer to the point of access for reduced latency. Clouds are therefore an attractive target for organised and skilled cyber-attacks. They are also more vulnerable as they host environments from multiple tenant organisations with different interests and different risk aversion profiles. Yet clouds also offer opportunities for better protection both pro-actively and reactively in response to a persistent attack."

"This project is funded by the International Technology Alliance programme in Network and Information Science between UK (MoD) and US (ARL). It investigates the development of formal foundations for secure hybrid wireless networking, which supports adaptable and interoperable communication and information services for coalition operations. The Principal Investigator is Dr Alessandra Russo and the research is conducted in collaboration with Dr Jorge Lobo, form ICREA – UPF and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, New York, USA."

"EU Future and Emerging Technology (FET) project under the 7th Framework Programme, as part of the Pervasive Adaptation Initiative (PerAda). The recent advances in pervasive technologies enable construction of large-scale socio-technical systems which tightly interweave humans and their social structures with technology. The overall goal of Allow Ensembles is to develop a new design principle and establish a new foundational framework for collective adaptive systems (CAS) based on the concept of cell ensembles. The principal investigator is Dr Naranker Dulay and Dr Alessandra Russo is a co-investigator."

"EU project, part of the FP7 People Programme. It is an international research staff exchange agreement with the aim of facilitating mobility and collaboration between Argentina and Europe on the use of formal methods and logic to model, understand and analyse systems. The Principal investigator is Dr Alessandra Russo and the contact person is Dr Sebastian Uchitel."