John McCarthy Quotes
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Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
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Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
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Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
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Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
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If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
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Language is froth on the surface of thought.
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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
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The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
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My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
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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 Southern Hemisphere.
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He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
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Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
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Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
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Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
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Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.