Ira Carmen quotes

It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you.
-- Ira Carmen

#Leadership #College #Popular Vote

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!
-- Ira Carmen

#Science #Political #Conversation

Computers will be the death of us all.
-- Ira Carmen

#Computer

You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that?
-- Ira Carmen

#Queens #College #Judging

Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.
-- Ira Carmen

#Lying #Men #Sweat

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.