
“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”
Asked if he will be able to understand the accent in Tony Blair's constituency in North-East England, 14 November 2003 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3269703.stm
2000s, 2003
“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”
When asked about his singing.
AbsolutePunk.net, Patrick Stump, Part 1 - 10.06.08
about President Clinton, Meet the Press, January 24, 1999 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Vs5570pKw
Letter to William Thomson (2 January 1851), indicating his early work on what has since become known as Boolean logic.
1850s
Context: I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.
Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 2, Chance, Risk and Malice, p. 58
60 Minutes interview (2006)