Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]
From Viva La Bam
Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]
“Koskela the Finn. Eats iron and shits chains.”
Väinö Linna book The Unknown Soldier
Koskela introducing himself while intoxicated, p. 298.
The Unknown Soldier
“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Also often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein because both helped popularize the expression – Friedman with a book with that title. The phrase actually dates to at least the 1930s.
Misattributed
“The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.”
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist
2010s, 2013, Obamacare laid bare (2013)
“Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.”
Chuck Klosterman book Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005)
Chamath Palihapitiya (1976) American businessman
About the use of Facebook. Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart, The Guardian (Dec. 12, 2017)
John Allen Paulos (1945) American mathematician
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 5, “Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society” (p. 147)
Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt, The inflationary universe, edited by [Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 0-521-43831-4, 54]