When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.
The fact that a task cannot be computerized does not imply that computerization has no effect on that task. On the contrary, tasks that cannot be substituted by computerization are generally complemented by it. This point is as fundamental as it is overlooked.
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.
I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.
The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.
Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.
