Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199809041918.MAA06850@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.”
Quote from an interview by John Corbett (1989)
1980s
Source: Silence
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Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
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“A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.”
Robertson Davies book The Cunning Man
Part 4, section 4.
The Cunning Man (1994)
“Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
spoken by the character "The Chink".
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
“You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”
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Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
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John S. Bell (1928–1990) Northern Irish physicist
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“As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
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Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
… What excellent advice it is, and how it was beaten into my generation of schoolboys... But one may tire of even the best advice, as one may tire of writing according to these precepts. Would we wish to be without the heraldic splendour and torchlight processions that are the sentences of Sir Thomas Browne? Would we wish to sacrifice the orotund, Latinate pronouncements of Samuel Johnson? Would we wish that Dickens had written in the style recommended by the brothers Fowler, who framed the rules I have quoted; what would then have happened to Seth Pecksniff, Wilkins Micawber, and Sairey Gamp, I ask you?
Writing (1990), he here quotes from The King's English (1906) by Henry Watson Fowler & Francis George Fowler
“I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.”
Honoré de Balzac book Louis Lambert
Je préfère la pensée à l'action, une idée à une affaire, la contemplation au mouvement.
Louis Lambert (1832), as translated by Clara Bell