Kenneth Quotes

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!

[Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise.

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.

Two heads are better than one only if they contain different opinions.

Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

All poetry comes from repetition.

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable.

Correlation is not causation.

If you were back in the Cretaceous Period - the last of the time of the dinosaurs - and you were driving from New York to Philadelphia on the New Jersey Turnpike, you would be driving across water.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

...Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.?

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.