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“It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”
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“Error often is to be preferred to indecision.”
Source : Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis (1837). “Memoirs of Aaron Burr”, p.337
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“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”
Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.
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“The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.”
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“Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.”
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“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”
Source : The Guardian, September 30, 1989.
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“Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.”
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“The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.”
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
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“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”
