Kenneth Quotes
Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.
While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.
It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.
Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.
A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.
We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate
Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.
Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.
If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.
Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.
Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'
Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.
I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.
When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.
