Weekend Words: Go
"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."
On Wednesday, the computer program AlphaGo, developed by the artificial intelligence company Google DeepMind, beat the South Korean master Lee Se-dol in a game of Go, winning its first match with human player.
I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
—Dwight D Eisenhower
Goin’ to a go go, everybody’s
Goin’ to a go go, well, come on now
Don’t you want to go, yeah.
—Smokey Robinson; Marv Tarplin; Pete Moore; Bobby Rogers, “Going to a Go-Go”
Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.
—Samuel Beckett
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
—Madame Swetchine
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
—William Faulkner
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
—Sigmund Freud
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So ya gotta let me know
Should I cool it or should I blow?
—Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”
Go ahead, make my day.
—Harry Julian Fink, Rita Fink, Dean Riesner, Dirty Harry
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
—Muriel Spark
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I will tell you a story, and then he passes the hat.
—Robertson Davies
I see it all before me:
the days of love and torment;
the nights of rock-and-roll.
I see it all before me.
Sometimes my spirit’s empty;
don’t have the will to go on.
I wish someone would send me
energy.
—Patti Smith, “”Privilege (Set Me Free)”
Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more.
—John 8:11 (KJV)
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.
—T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
And we will all go together when we go —
Every Hottentot and every Eskimo.
—Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
—George Bernard Shaw
Nowhere to go but out,
Nowhere to come but back.
—Benjamin Franklin King, “The Pessimist”
