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Speech Analysis - A detailed paper describing some of the technology of speech recognition.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Algorithms Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Algorithms If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Algorithms
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 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Algorithms "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Benjamin Tillett Algorithms "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Algorithms
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Algorithms "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Algorithms Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Algorithms
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Algorithms "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Algorithms The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Algorithms
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Algorithms Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Algorithms
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Algorithms Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Algorithms
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Algorithms Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
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