
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.”
"Learning to Expect the Unexpected," The New York Times (2004-04-08}
Last Laugh ‘05 (2005)
"Re: The NAACP is Insane!" (21 February 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FX8IMw-uM
Corgan, William. Interview. Playboy. (Month?), 1997.
As quoted in "At 90, and Still Dynamic : Revisiting Sir Karl Popper and Attending His Birthday Party" by Eugene Yue-Ching Ho, in Intellectus 23 (Jul-Sep 1992)
Source: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 5. <!-- pp. 41-42 -->
Context: It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.