Gaurds Deck Quotes

#1. In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

John Tukey

#2. Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

Ellis Peters

#3. Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

Murray Rothbard

#4. When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

Alan King

#5. I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

Ulysses S. Grant

#6. A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.

Gloria Reuben

#7. Some people won't have kids, but I'm not going to have parents. I'm burning their birth certificates and defacing their gravestones tonight.

Bauvard

#8. Death should be celebrated ... when you put something in the ground you always know where it is

Tea Obreht

#9. The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?

Henry David Thoreau

#10. The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

John Cheever