"Tradition ist die Weitergabe des Feuers und nicht die
Anbetung der Asche" (attributed to several sources)
"The gods
may throw a dice, their minds as cold as ice" (B.
Ulvaeus commenting on A.E.)
"No man is an island" (J. Donne commenting on the Social
Network)
"A raging bull; castrated, as an ox, it can feed the world"
(on capitalism) "No sense to let the bull range free nor to kill
the ox"
"Brin and
Page, what is this? We do not pay you to do basic research!"
(on industrial research)
"Bad talks make you want to die and good talks mess up your
brain" (why one should avoid talks)
"Where a third guest bathroom is more important than good
schools" (on strange places)
"No it ain't necessarily so" (Sportin'Life)
She asked: “Who Do you like better: the French or the
British?” He replied: “I don’t like my fellow countrymen, I
don’t like the people in my quarter, I don’t like my family and
I don’t like myself. Why should I like the French or the
British?” (on wrong questions)
"Not in cold blood; enjoying it, with a cup of tea" (the
generals)
"All I told you is true and the opposite is also true"
"I mean, how do you dance to it?" (Referring to Chet Baker's
music) (Cool and the Crazy)
"Well, I'm not a building" (after he explained that the camera
was a three-dimensional camera (?) ... meant for photographing
three-dimensional subjects and she responded that, as a matter
of fact, she was three-dimensional, to what he replied that the
camera was basically for buildungs) (Two for the Road)
"You don't mess with the Zohan" (You don't mess with the
Zohan)
"Es wird bös enden!" (Zur Sache Schätzchen)
"Awesome, 40 years ago they only played music for old people,
but now there is really good music on the radio" (things change
..... not)
"Maybe we should look at The Shire not in terms of average
wage, corruption and democracy indices, or tax load, but
in terms of the humanoids that live there and their stories"
Contradicting his own paradigm, Guy Berkeley "Berke"
Breathed's Bloom County is more eternal than a ripe melon
If you only know Deep Learning, you're pretty shallow! (on
Deep Learning)
"How old are you?"---"Ten!"--- "Cool! When I was your age, I
was also ten!" (on coincidences)
Sometimes, if you push against a wall, and it seems that the
harder you push, the more resistance you feel, it might be
wiser to look for the door (on pushing really hard)
Mother Nature shouldn't worry too much: humans are a transient
life form (on one less worry)
Classical Physics: I don't know where my marbles are but
Mother Nature does; Quantum Physics: we both lost our marbles
(on the interpretation of quantum mechanics)
On less flexible researchers: Well in the age of Block Chain
Cognitive Scalable Quantum AI, even the fastest researcher
(I mean the real ones) cannot keep up with the lightning speed
of PowerPoint: Is it research? Is it technology? No it is
PowerPoint!
In a recent interview Peter Wohlleben (Wood Wide Web) made a
very interesting point: we do not have to take care of nature
for the sake of nature's survival: There will be some very rich
form of nature in the far future, pretty much whatever we do.
After all, nature survived past disasters quite well, such as
several mass extinctions. We need to take care of nature only
for the sake of our own survival!
My team members' and students' job is it to do all the hard
work in the office. My job is it to make them believe that it is
all worth it (on different roles)
The philosophers in Ancient Greece did not complain too
much that their slaves stole their jobs. We will all be
philosophers (on a future with AI)
Maybe statistics is just counting peas --- but counting peas
let us understand the secrets of life
Humans are learning machines
The world changed from "If you can't say something nice, don't
say nothing at all" to "If you cannot put somebody down,
don't bother"
Panem et circenses et selfies
Covid-19 was brought back by men (!) from a trip to the
moon, which, of course, was a complete fake
Of course, the world revolves around me! Stupid world!
Love to love and hate to hate and don't love to hate and hate
to love
An MCMC is like a sour dough handed over solemnly from one
Bayesian generation to the next
Martin Luther copied and leaked highly classified information
about the catholic church when he was an Augustinian monk. His
Bible translation disclosed to the public the true content of
The Holy Book. He unveiled several conspiracies, many run by the
Pope and his cardinals, and prompted a cultural discussion about
church hierarchies and individual belief. (so maybe the Snowden
of his time?)
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened
(Theodor Seuss Geisel) One should never cry that it's over
with, one should be happy that it was (Joe Zawinul)
A long, long time ago the elite thinkers of their times
proposed that it can only be fair that we have as many dumb
people in leadership positions as smart people
As there are good and but also ugly sides to capitalism and
communism, in particular when driven to extremes, maybe we
should be less surprised that this also applies to proposals
made by the elite thinkers of our times
I would never submit to a conference or journal that would
accept papers from people like me
I don't know, but this new healthy lifestyle of mine is just
killing me
Many thousands of years ago, the elite of their times decided
that it was discriminating against the dumb to have only smart
people as their leaders
Good to see that trespassing is a serious offense in the U.S.
and other countries: Trespassing is as bad as any other assing
I have all the words. Now, I have to bring them in
right order
We're here because they're looking for the best of the best of
the best! ---- You know, we're just really excited, and we have
no clue why we're here (MIB, slightly modified)
Zuerst war sie im toten Winkel und dann war sie tot
English: Saxons trying to speak French
French: Franks trying to speak Latin
High German: Saxons trying to speak how Frankish is written
(by Luther) ("Schriftsprache")
Life is tough if you do not hate anyone
We should distinguish between symbolic representations and
logical reasoning. FOL-type deterministic logical reasoning is
only applicable to human generated domains (board games,
mathematics, the law, technical artifacts, ...); a symbolic
interpretation of sensory inputs, of memory, ... is important,
even when logical reasoning is not applicable
Despite the obvious fact that I am the smartest person in the
universe, everyone I talk to seems to be so much smarter than me
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of
office ---in this dead-end job--- again! (free, after BD)
I really like to go to office if almost no one is there; so it
does not seem the be the place ...
It seems a lot of people think that the opposite of one form
of stupidity is another form of stupidity
He demonstrated that there is a fine line between
hitting a dissonant key by mistake and by intention
„It's not a bug, it's a feature“ (Thelonious Monk)
We are living in the age of self-righteousness, hypocrisy, and
bigotry
In a war, many good people on all sides die; this is not
Hollywood
For management, reality is just an endless PeePeePee
(PowerPoint Presentation)
"Why do you come to my morning lecture, don't you have a
life?" (why you should not give a lecture after a night
partying)
"I have no idea what the point of this slide is ...
let's look at the next one ....., next ..., " (ibid)
My new policy: zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies
This is how you write a paper: First you pick words. Then you
put them in right order to form sentences. Finally, you
put those in right order. There you have it!
Newton was right in 50% of all his claims; I believe I am
right in more than 50% of all claims; to be fair, both of us
probably agree on most things!