“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
“Suppose you want to convert a bunch of pictures into icons. Suppose you know how to do that with one picture: you click on the file, "drag" it over to the icon-generating program, then "drop" it there. Repeat until thoroughly disgusted with the idiocy of the paradigm of direct manipulation. Suppose instead you were able to communicate your actual desire to the computer, in (gasp!) a language!”
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“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Draft manuscript (c.1881), quoted by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912), p. 724 http://books.google.com/books?id=2UYLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA724#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">Variant: Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
“Darling, you look like a religious icon there [in her high school graduation picture].”
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
comment by Isaac, host of Style Network fashion program (December 15, 2006)
2007, 2008
A. M. Homes (1961) novelist and memoirst from the United States
Source: This Book Will Save Your Life (2006), P. 325.
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)
Paul Goodman (1911–1972) American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist
as quoted in Commonist Tendencies: Mutual Aid Beyond Communism
“A poem doesn’t do everything for you.
You are supposed to go on with your thinking.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
"Song of Winnie"
Winnie (1988)
Context: I pass you my Poem.
A poem doesn’t do everything for you.
You are supposed to go on with your thinking.
You are supposed to enrich
the other person’s poem with your extensions,
your uniquely personal understandings,
thus making the poem serve you.
“And you suppose that, knowing how I have changed, he will believe that!”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) English novelist and journalist
she cried. “He will fire long before you can finish one of those fine sentences!”
Source: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 8, “Paid in His Own Coin”
