#submarine

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#course #greater #having #history #long

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#anything #confess #crew #doing #i

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! ↗

— Nevil Shute

#disease #humor #illness #measles #radioactivity

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#computer #interesting #more #question #submarine

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. ↗

— Charles Frohman

#i #make #managed #me #mere

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#catch #child #course #drafted #ended