Jack Canfield

In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.

American Author

Elon Musk

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

South African Businessman

Dave Morris

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

British Author

William Godwin

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

English Writer

Safra A. Catz

Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

American Businesswoman

John Morley

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

British Statesman

Robert Rauschenberg

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

American Artist

Lord Salisbury

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

English Politician

Selah Louise Marley

My mother's music speaks to me as an oracle.

Luis Barragan

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Mexican Architect

Originally used to describe priests or priestesses who communicated with gods in ancient cultures.

Ancient Usage

'Oracle' implies a deep, often mystical source of wisdom, beyond usual human experience.

Symbol of Wisdom

Can reference culturally significant oracles, like the Oracle of Delphi, which are part of history or mythology.

Cultural References

In computing, 'Oracle' often refers to the specific company or its products, not the general concept.

Technical Specificity

When discussing databases, 'Oracle' has a modern and technical context, not historic or mystical.

Modern Context

Many people recognize 'Oracle' as a software brand, so be clear when using it in a different context.

Brand Recognition

Use 'oracle' to express a source giving a significant response, especially if it's profound or mysterious.

Precision of Context

An oracle’s reply may be intentionally vague or enigmatic, requiring interpretation.

Expect Ambiguity

 but the key thing is that it was the place that Alexander the Great went to when he wanted to find out what his destiny had in store for him. And legend has it that Alexander trekked through this desert. Half his battalion was wiped out in the sandstorm. And myth says that he had an audience with the oracle,

Euvin Naidoo: Africa as...

 holding the orange notebook? Well, those were the temple guides, and they worked hand in hand with the oracle. When inquisitors would come and get on their knees, that's when the temple guides would get to work, because after they asked her questions, they would observe their emotional state,

The human insights...

 that has no safety concerns. We have the perfect design the first time around. It's as though we've been handed an oracle that behaves exactly as intended. Well, this machine would be the perfect labor-saving device. It can design the machine that can build the machine

Can we build AI without...

 However, for a long time, the chicken’s revered status continued to exist alongside its culinary one. The Ancient Greeks used fighting roosters as inspirational examples for young soldiers. The Romans consulted chickens as oracles. And as late as the 7th Century,

History through the eyes...

 out of work. And consequently, low aggregate demand, which in a never-ending cycle, reinforces the pessimism of the investors, who, fearing low demand, reproduce it by not investing -- exactly like Oedipus' father, who, terrified by the prophecy of the oracle

Capitalism will eat...

 as I think a modern-day miracle/oracle can get, but, ooh-eee, you want to bet just how whack and un-PC your Mac or PC is going to be when I'm rocking hot-shit-hot-shot-god.net? I guess it's just like life. It is not a question of if you can --

If I controlled the...

 about a man who doesn't know he was adopted, and is warned by an oracle that he's destined to murder his father and marry his mother. In trying to escape this fate, he kills a man who won't get out of his way at a crossroad.

Why tragedies are...

 establishing the city as the best place in the world to seek guidance directly from the God of Prophecy. Well, almost directly. At any given time, a single oracle known as the Pythia communicates Apollo’s will.

A day in the life of an...

 and of course, many scholars, pundits, technologists and media figures today. These predictions strike me as arrogant. These self-proclaimed oracles are in effect saying,

Will automation take...

 feet up in a fig tree well it's actually a fig that has sort of encapsulated a big dipped oracle tree and this is another blind this is me about 150 feet

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