"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of……" — John McCarthy
"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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42 Quotes by John McCarthy
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…
- 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…
- 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…