Famous quotes containing the words plausible and/or reasoning:
“The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with cylinder oil, and coat their outsides with sprayed rubber film, and let them statically await the next emergency.”
—Norbert Wiener (18941964)
“If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infants reasoning to the grown mans passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)
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