
Source: Epigrams, p. 346
Source: Dark Places
Source: Epigrams, p. 346
Business Insider: "Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has advice for Facebook and Google: Don't make the mistake we did" http://www.businessinsider.com/ex-microsoft-ceo-steve-baller-tech-industry-work-with-regulators-2018-6?r=UK&IR=T (23 June 2018)
2010s
Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 11 : The Dragon in My Garage, p. 180
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Context: I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
“I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious,serious mistake.”
Free the Airwaves! (2002)
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“I'm Really Serious. Do Not Turn the Page. You Will Regret It.”
Source: Nonfiction, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs (1997), p. xvii
Good Morning America interview, after recent news that escalating insurgency and violent incidents had left around 2,500 people dead (over 700 of them civilians) since January of the same year in Afghanistan; 21 July 2008; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25799429/
2000s, 2008
“You are a smart man, Ira, but sometimes I think you do not understand women very well.”
Ruth Levinson, Chapter 20 Ira, p. 267
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”
Quoted in B. Madhok: Indianisation, and quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa.p. 364-6