“To a modern mathematician, design seems to be a second-rate intellectual activity.”
George Forsythe (1917–1972) Stanford University computer scientist
George Forsythe (1966) cited in: Peter Naur (1992) Computing: A human activity. p. 230
“I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.”
— Jack Vance, book Showboat World
Source: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 10 (p. 111)
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“First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.”
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Ibid.
Essays and reviews, From the Land of Shadows (1982)
Liza Minnelli (1946) American actress and singer
Liza Minelli, as quoted in "Liza Minelli 'Never Felt Better' Despite Tabloids' Whispers" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rmRGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6ugMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3577%2C2269544 by Douglas J. Rowe, in TV Plus: The Schenectady Sunday Gazette Supplement (June 9, 1996), p. 4 <br class="br">Context: It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. "You sing them better than anybody. I don't want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself."
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Alfred Binet (1909, 118) as cited in: Seymour Bernard Sarason, John Doris (1979), Educational handicap, public policy, and social history. p. 32
Modern ideas about children, 1909/1975
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
Television broadcast (15 June 1970), quoted in John Campbell, Edward Heath (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993), p. 278.
Leader of the Opposition
“I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity”
Alison Bechdel (1960) American cartoonist, author
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
I. J. Good (1916–2009) British statistician, cryptographer
"Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine" http://www.stat.vt.edu/tech_reports/2005/GoodTechReport.pdf, Advances in Computers, vol. 6, 1965
Edwin Hubble (1889–1953) American astronomer
as quoted by [N. Y. Mayall, Biographical memoir. Volume 41, Memoirs of the National Academy of sciences, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of Sciences, 1970, 179]
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“I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.”
Liza Minnelli (1946) American actress and singer
Liza Minelli, as quoted in I Remember It Well (1975) by Vincente Minelli with Hector Arce, p. 395 https://books.google.com/books?id=D6jDtmiJCpkC&q=minelli+%22second-rate%22+%22first-rate+version%22&dq=minelli+%22second-rate%22+%22first-rate+version%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwBGoVChMI0on3sqjdxgIVxHg-Ch1NhwVD; reprinted in "Judy and Liza, Part 3" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CfpjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WuYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7188%2C5401411 by Vincente Minelli, in The Sydney Herald (August 15, 1975), p. 8 <br class="br">Context: I couldn't sing Mama's special songs. I couldn't do them as well. I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.
