“If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.”

— Josephine Tey

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Scottish author, mystery writer 1896–1952

Saul Gorn (1912–1992) computer scientist

Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 2; Cited in: Benjamin C. Pierce (2002) Types and programming languages. p. 313

“That’s impossible,” said Tris.
“Most things are,” Luca said, “if you think about them for long enough.”

Jon Courtenay Grimwood (1953) British writer

Source: Stamping Butterflies (2004), Chapter 40 (p. 254)

“All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We’ve got to make it unthinkable.”

Norman Thomas (1884–1968) American Presbyterian minister and socialist

Debate with Barry Goldwater, University of Arizona campus, Tucson, Arizona, November 1961

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”

Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States

“I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

"Carpe Noctem, If You Can", Credos and Curios (1962)
From other writings

“We really need to think quite pragmatically about whether intellectual property is helping or hurting, and if you can't show it's going to help, then there is no reason to issue this government-backed monopoly.”

Lawrence Lessig (1961) American academic, political activist.

"Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig" at O'Reilly P2P (29 January 2001)(29 January 2001)
Context: Our problem is that lawyers have taught us that there is only one kind of economic market for innovation out there and it is this kind of isolated inventor who comes up with an idea and then needs to be protected. That is a good picture of maybe what pharmaceutical industry does. It's a bad picture of what goes on, for example, in the context of software development, in particular. In the context of software development, where you have sequential and complementary developments, patents create an extraordinarily damaging influence on innovation and on the process of developing and bringing new ideas to market. So the particular mistake that lawyers have compounded is the unwillingness to discriminate among different kinds of innovation.
We really need to think quite pragmatically about whether intellectual property is helping or hurting, and if you can't show it's going to help, then there is no reason to issue this government-backed monopoly.

“If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“You become what you think about”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

“If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.”

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