People Quotes by Paul Laffoley

At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to…

— Paul Laffoley

At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been…

— Paul Laffoley

I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.

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I would say [to my father], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying [you are not believing…

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When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very…

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff,…

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's…

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We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did…

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You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

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I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of…

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[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

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[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people…

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Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other…

— Paul Laffoley

Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful.…

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I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the…

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It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize.…

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You know, people who can draw get upset when people who can't start telling them what to do!

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Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the…

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Both [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were preternaturally young. I mean, for a long time Tesla was a young man well into…

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To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when…

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