From Viva La Bam
as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]
“Koskela the Finn. Eats iron and shits chains.”
Koskela introducing himself while intoxicated, p. 298.
The Unknown Soldier
“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
Also often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein because both helped popularize the expression – Friedman with a book with that title. The phrase actually dates to at least the 1930s.
Misattributed
“The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.”
2010s, 2013, Obamacare laid bare (2013)
“Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.”
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005)
About the use of Facebook. Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart, The Guardian (Dec. 12, 2017)
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 5, “Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society” (p. 147)
Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt, The inflationary universe, edited by [Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 0-521-43831-4, 54]
