Alexander McCall Smith Quote

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is heali...

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.