John McCarthy Quotes
- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
- With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
- A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
- Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
- If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
- Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
- Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the…
- Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
- Language is froth on the surface of thought.
- Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
- Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
- Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
- Compassion is contempt with a human face.
- In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
- Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
- Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
- My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
- His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
- Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.