Checkers Quotes - Page 2

• With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Mind Blowing, Eras

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2011

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• All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

  Terry Gross

  Brother, Dad, Boards

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• A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line.

  Rod Lurie

  Book, Editors, Rumor

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 2, 2009.

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• It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

  Courtney Love

  Stupid, Moving, Knights

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• The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?

  Marjorie Garber

  Loyalty, Dog, Book

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

  Garry Kasparov

  Cousin, Fate, Technology

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Funny, Writing, Winning

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• The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cutting, Organization, Giving

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• I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald [Trump] supported the invasion of Iraq.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Facts, Invasion

  Source: time.com

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