
[199809041918.MAA06850@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
Quote from an interview by John Corbett (1989)
1980s
Source: Silence
[199809041918.MAA06850@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
Message-ID <20050516005559.GC26184@wall.org> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/21259, to perl6-language mailing-list.
Other
“Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!”
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.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
quoted in Graham Farmelo, " Random Acts of Science http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/books/review/Farmelo-t.html", The New York Times (June 11, 2010)
“As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
Attributed to Einstein in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography by Carl Seeling (1956), p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=VCbPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22silent+vice%22#search_anchor. Einstein is said to have made this remark "when someone in his company grew angry about a mutual acquaintance's moral decline".
Attributed in posthumous publications
… 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.”
Je préfère la pensée à l'action, une idée à une affaire, la contemplation au mouvement.
Louis Lambert (1832), as translated by Clara Bell