Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

History is more or less bunk.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

If you judge, investigate.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.