#wi

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#any #computer #does #judgment #literacy

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ↗

— John McPhee

#go #inventing #letters #liked #without

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#anymore #bar #even #get #hollywood

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper. ↗

— Graydon Carter

#politics #wit #humor

A brick could be used as a laxative. You know, “Shit a brick.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#convicted #duty #ennobled #guilt #i

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet. ↗

— Jean-Marie Messier

#ever #frenchman #i #i am #meet

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#assume #commands #conclusion #defend #dictates

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#beaten #because #been #blows #encourage

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. ↗

— Mencius

#artist #bids #desire #forbids #him