E. P. Thompson Quotes

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

A new report shows that medicare and Medicaid made more than $50 Billion in bad payments during fiscal year 2011. Under Obamacare, that'll become known as 'Tuesday.'

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.