Quotes of Submarine - somelinesforyou

“ In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. ”

- James William Fulbright

“ The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ”

- E. W. Dijkstra

“ If I am looking for something, for example a lost sunken submarine, I just hold my hands over the map and focus on the submarine until I feel a magnetic pull towards the location. To double check, I fly over the area. There is no deep concentration or meditation involved… ”

- Uri Geller

“ In Yellow Submarine, we used chains that were there and all sorts of bowls and things. And of course, we used bowls of water too. And bottles with straws, blowing them into the water, to get the effect of submarines surfacing, that kind of thing. It was nice to do because it, we were all being very inventive… ”

- George Martin

“ The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim. ”

- Professor Edsger Dijkstra
  • 1