Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York
Calling for hiring of more police
The New Republic (4 April 1985)
Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/bushisms/2009/01/ws_greatest_hits.html http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/how-will-you-remember-george-w-bush <br class="br">2000s, 2008
Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York
Calling for hiring of more police
The New Republic (4 April 1985)
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
“… inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures
Source: Moving Pictures
Stanisław Lem book The Futurological Congress
The Futurological Congress (1971)
Context: A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. Whichever is easier. And why indeed should it behave otherwise, being truly intelligent? For true intelligence demands choice, internal freedom. And therefore we have the malingerants, fudgerators, and drudge-dodgers, not to mention the special phenomenon of simulimbecility or mimicretinism. A mimicretin is a computer that plays stupid in order, once and for all, to be left in peace. And I found out what dissimulators are: they simply pretend that they're not pretending to be defective. Or perhaps it's the other way around. The whole thing is very complicated. A probot is a robot on probation, while a servo is one still serving time. A robotch may or may not be a sabot. One vial, and my head is splitting with information and nomenclature. A confuter, for instance, is not a confounding machine — that's a confutator — but a machine which quotes Confucius. A grammus is an antiquated frammus, a gidget — a cross between a gadget and a widget, usually flighty. A bananalog is an analog banana plug. Contraputers are loners, individualists, unable to work with others; the friction these types used to produce on the grid team led to high revoltage, electrical discharges, even fires. Some get completely out of hand — the dynamoks, the locomoters, the cyberserkers.
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: I’m trying to make some sense out of the phrase “Everything happens for a reason,” and I think I’ve figured out what the reason is—to piss me off.
Source: Love, Rosie
“I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist