70 Quotes by John McCarthy

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

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.

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.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

When I hear the word Heidegger I reach for my axe. He may have swiped it.

If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.