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John McCarthy has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…

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