James Agate (1877–1947) British diarist and critic
Ego 6 (1944), p. 189, June 9, 1943.
As quoted in "U.S. Goalkeeper Faces Difficult Save" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/sports/soccer/25goalie.html?pagewanted=print, The New York Times (May 25, 2008). <br class="br">2000s
James Agate (1877–1947) British diarist and critic
Ego 6 (1944), p. 189, June 9, 1943.
Richard Feynman book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose — which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me. <br class="br">Source: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 239, from interview in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=48m10s
“I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.”
Robert S. McNamara (1916–2009) American businessman and Secretary of Defense
Quoted in: Charles A. Stevenson (2006), SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense http://books.google.com/books?id=2NXbS5AG_8QC&pg=PA28, p. 28
Richard Feynman book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Source: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 239, from interview in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=48m10s
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets. Some people, they paint abstract, so they sit there thinking about it because their thinking makes them feel they're doing something. But my thinking never makes me feel I'm doing anything.
Source: 1970s, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), p. 149
“My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.”
Edward Abbey book The Monkey Wrench Gang
George Hayduke, page 229
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
Fred W. Friendly (1915–1998) President of CBS News
Open Mind Interview http://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep497
MC Daleste (1992–2013) Brazilian funk and rap musician
In the song Lagrimas de Sofrimento http://www.vagalume.com.br/mc-daleste/lagrima-de-sofrimento.html