On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in the first game of a six-game match - the first time a computer had ever beaten a human in a formal chess game.
Where are my heroes? Where are you, my children? Where are my own, the curious ones, the first, the original ones? Name me, muse, the immortal singer who, abandoned by those who listened to him, lost his voice. He who, from the angel of poetry that he was, became a poet, ignored or mocked outside on the threshold of no-man's land.
Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair “Vive la Liberte” a song says, “Work is freedom.” In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: “Arbeit macht frei.
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?
- Gustave Le Bon
- Gustave Le Bon
Forwarded from tomrum
On Valentine's Day of 1884, just 36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Alice, 25-year-old future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt held his young wife in his arms as she passed away from undiagnosed Bright's disease. Incredibly, just hours before, in the same house, he had already said a final goodbye to his mother, Martha. She had succumbed to Typhoid, aged just 48.
Theodore's diary for that day read as follows.
Theodore's diary for that day read as follows.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
- Jack Kerouac
- Jack Kerouac