SLT Group - Research, personnel, publications and events of The Speech and Language Technology group, part of the University of Patras, specialising in speech processing, natural language processing and optical character recognition.
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Education I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Education "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Education
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Education Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Education There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Education
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Education Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Education
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Education The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Education
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Education Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Education
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Education
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Education the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Education
