[Merrick Garland, Confirmation hearing on nomination of Merrick Garland to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Senate, December 1, 1995]; quote excerpted in:
[March 18, 2016, http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/03/16/judge-merrick-garland-in-his-own-words/, Judge Merrick Garland, In His Own Words, Joe Palazzolo, March 16, 2016, The Wall Street Journal]
Confirmation hearing on nomination to United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1995)
Open Mind Interview http://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep497
On The Ellen Degeneres Show http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/08/ellen-degeneres-caitlyn-jenner-gay-marriage.
“A: I think pain the greatest of all evils.
M: Greater than disgrace?
A: That indeed I dare not affirm; and yet I am ashamed to be so soon thrown down from my position.
M: It would have been a greater shame to have maintained it.”
A: Dolorem existimo maximum malorum omnium.
M: Etiamne malus quam dedecus?
A: Non audeo id dicere equidem, et me pudet tam cito de sententia esse deiectam.
M: Magis esset pudendum, si in sententia permaneres.
Book II, Chapter V; translation by Andrew P. Peabody
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
“You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), Ch. XV
2010s, 2016, October, Second presidential debate (October 9, 2016)
“I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.”
Commonly seen with the attribution "Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about the BIX BBS"
Clarified in a reply to reader email http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2view/view402.html#Saturday in Chaos Manor View 402, February 20-26, 2006
Attributed
“The prosecutor have a problem distinguishing from megabits and megabytes.”
Twitter/brokep http://twitter.com/brokep
Everyone has it. You can drown it in booze or say it doesn't exist, or insist that you don't feel guilt, but it is still something you have. This is because it's not a feeling; it's a condition.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
