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John McCarthy [1857-1943] American

Rank: 104
Politician, Computer scientist

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. McCarthy was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence.

Attitude, Failure, Intelligence, Knowledge, Nature, Trust

Quote	Tags	Rank
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.		101
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.		102
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.	Attitude	103
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.		104
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.		105
Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.		106
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.	Intelligence	107
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.	Nature	108
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.		109
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.	Knowledge	110
A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.		111
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.		112
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.		113
My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.		114
Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.		115
Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.		116
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.		117
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.		118
There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.		119
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.		120
Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.		121
Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.		122
Language is froth on the surface of thought.		123
Compassion is contempt with a human face.		124
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.	Trust	125
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.	Failure	126
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.		201
Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.		202
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.		203
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.		204
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.		205
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.		206
With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.		207
Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.		208
My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.		209
If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.		210
Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.		211
Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.		212
It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.		213
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.		214
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.		215

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