“As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do.”
"Science: Why I Am Not A Paranormalist", in The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener (1983)
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recreational mathematician and philosopher 1914–2010Related quotes
“Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.”
Book I, p. 138.
Collected Works
8m31s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eazIth4orfM#t=8m31s
Power to the Pixel (2009)
Context: I don't think distributors are cheating or evil or anything like that, I just think that the business model is unsustainable so they truly don't have money. There's just not much money in this particular model.
“As W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Context: People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
I do know that there is a release, the belated release. A justly or unjustly ruined reputation, poverty, disastrous circumstances, misfortune, they all turn you into a prisoner. You cannot always tell what keeps you confined, what immures you, what seems to bury you, and yet you can feel those elusive bars, railings, walls. Is all this illusion, imagination? I don't think so. And then one asks: My God! will it be for long, will it be for ever, will it be for eternity?
