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"It’s curious that the Latin root of the Middle English word for tradition, tradere, means not only to “impart” and “give over,” but also to “betray."

"Join me to enjoy this blog where you will find good reviews and comments on novels, short stories and poetry."

"I was always interested in Egyptian mummies […] but later on, during the Vietnam War, when I saw all these bodies in plastic bags […] then I thought of that whole thing too. […] The string does have to do with imprisonment. […] I am very concerned about the political prisoners all over the world, and of course it had to do with my own past experiences, where I was not tied up, but it does not mean literally, physically tied up. [Y]ou can be in prison without being in a locked room. You are imprisoned by your own fears, inhibitions, phobias."

"Everything I’ve done is a statement on the, as they say, ‘human condition."

"I also read English and Theaters Arts at the University and majored in Playwriting. I have a Masters in International Affairs, all from the University of Ghana, Legon. I am a Senior Assistant Registrar, with the Institute of Professional Studies. I am married with three boys."

"Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days.""

"I like wrapped things like Egyptian mummies, American burial costumes, and other archaeological finds."

"I also have a passion for thrillers, mystery and any good suspense novel from the West. I have read almost all of Sydney Sheldon, Dan Brown, Robert Ludlum, Jeffrey Archer, John Grisham, Martina Cole and a few of David Baldacci. I do love historical novels and romance. So, it goes without saying that I have read Danielle Steel, Judith Gould and Judith Krantz."

"Oh yes! I love discussing current affairs with friends, as well as blogging on the books I read. So this is me, a woman of diverse reading taste and talents."

"I stopped writing poetry when I stopped smoking.... It was more complicated than that."

"But now that I am in love with a place which doesn’t care how I look, or if I’m happy,happy is how I look."

"I love to write and read and not necessarily in that order. My home is choked with books of all sizes, both adult literature and children stuff as well."

"a world in which the hospital industrial complex makes “obsolete” different bodies"

"I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure."

"Perhaps relationships work more powerfully when there is absence and tension and a lot of heartache. I can't live with people."

"What else can I say? Did I forget to mention that I write romantic fiction for serialisation in a few newspapers in the country? Though, that is on hold at the moment. I’ve also done some radio serial drama for the Ghanaian public on topics ranging from child health and female sexual reproductive health. (A John Hopkins/USAID/Ghana Health Service project)"

"I am also fascinated with any novel that is based on the Jews and the Holocaust. So, I’ve read almost all of Leon Uris."

"There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse"

"My verse forms are relatively traditional (traditions alter). In general they have moved away from strict classical patterns in the direction of greater freedom — as is usual with most artists learning a trade. It takes courage, however, to leave all props behind, to cast oneself, like Matisse, upon pure space. I still await that confidence."

"It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse."

"“I always think that if I let go and go into the large outer space, I won’t find my way back. It’s just fear of the unknown…and I don’t know if I could come back…. I have fear of the unknown in general, whereas other people want to go out and explore the unknown."

"I read mostly fiction, both contemporary and classic. I do love non-fiction too, if I lay hands on any. I enjoy world literature as well. I’m partial to women writers and their works, especially African women writers."

"All poets, all writers, are terrible parasites. We use people and experiences."

"Friends change toward the ill person, some revealed in their strange and beautiful kindness and some exposed in their utter, ugly selfishness."

"Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen."

"I can’t write myself except through reading others’ words."

"Why would anyone write about illness except the ill? And at first, too, the experience is too close for the ill person to be a reliable witness. The mind doesn’t want to write about the body’s condition but to change it, for in dreams the body can still dance!"

"Man always acts to achieve goals; the goal of the Christian is the glory of God, “I hope my studies have brought glory to God, as there were useful to others, and derived from obedience, because that was my father’s will. Now I have found better ways and means to serve God, and to be useful to others."

"To avoid this it is best, indeed necessary, that female minds – as they say – having been elevated enough on their own and filled, be kept away entirely from the liberal disciplines and be content with the management of domestic affairs, busying themselves with the needle and the spindle; these things, and others of this kind, are proper to women, unlike pen and paper, since nothing is really more irritating than a learned woman in a debate. Most equitable judges, these things are the fortifications and foundations that must be overturned and destroyed. I dare to promise that the opinion of all your adversaries will be rejected by me as a thing of no importance”."

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"I want to see things done with creativity and lots of consultations, and not being decided by people who’ve been politicians their entire life, but by people… that you would like to be your neighbour."

"It made me appreciate what humans were capable of."

"Every limitation we place on the potential of machines is a limitation we indirectly place on ourselves."

"I see no reason why computer-created music cannot move us to tears, find roots in our cultures...as much as any music composed in more traditional ways. As heretical to some as these thoughts may be, I believe them profoundly."

"I felt strongly that the work was worth something,” “I don’t worry about what people think of me.”"

"Concerns about intelligence are not confined to concerns about our leaders. Our school systems use cognitive tests to stream high school students into different pro¬ grams. Colleges use cognitive tests to screen applicants for higher education programs. These tests are never called “intelligence tests,” but they correlate highly with them."

"Testing is not confined to the educational system. Volunteers for the United States military services must obtain passing scores on a test of general mental competence, the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT)."

"The works have delighted, angered, provoked, and terrified those who have heard them. I do not believe that the composers and audiences of the future will have the same reactions. Ultimately, the computer is just a tool with which we extend our minds."

"Realizing that I didn’t belong has probably fostered my lifelong ability to not be concerned about those who attack me for being independent,” “I follow my own calling.”"

"Creativity does not originate from a vacuum."

"“I remember thinking, ‘I’m not a white person and I’m not an Indian. What am I? Even at that young age, it somehow freed me from following cultural stereotypes. I was me, and it felt very good."

"No, other AI people who weren't working on theorem provers in particular. I don't know if I can give a lot of references off the top of my head, but that was the state of the art for awhile. It used heuristics and that turned out to be later not as popular amongst the formal automated theorem proving crowd to use heuristics. They wanted to find out what you could do to stand alone heuristics."

"Heuristics are ad hoc. They tend [correct word?], you fix up the heuristics for limit theorems. Now when you go to algebra you need some new heuristics. And when you go to functional analysis and you need some new ones. When are you going to stop? This is what we want as a general purpose prover here. It will prove anything. You're in a dilemma. I mean if you get a general purpose prover oftentimes they're too weak."

"You get a very special purpose prover that uses heuristics, then they stop at the boundary where they can't work anymore."

"We proved — in the stand-alone mode with heuristics — we proved limit theorems of calculus and that's a good sample"

"Partly, but partly to see how far we could go with automating the proof of mathematical theorems. That was the intent."

"If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company."

"This is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole"

"Yes, that's fair enough. It's not really what I said, though. I mean my goals were independent of the name. I wouldn't call them mathematics either."