
“People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!”
“People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!”
From his autobiography, also requoted in Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', p. 596
“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
Context: If you attack stupidity, you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life, and you will make small progress against it.
“No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway…”
[1991Aug7.180856.2854@netlabs.com, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
Video game commentary, Calm Time (November 23, 2013)
“If someone in going to die anyway without an operation, then you have nothing to lose by trying.”
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 43