Top 57 John Mccarthy Quotes
#1. I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
Marvin Minsky
#2. One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.
Douglas Hofstadter
#3. The first period of excitement, which began with the Dartmouth meeting, was later described by John McCarthy (the event's main organizer) as the "Look, Ma, no hands!" era.
Nick Bostrom
#4. Teddy McCarthy to John McCarthy, no relation, John McCarthy back to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation.
Micheal O Muircheartaigh
#5. It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.
John McCarthy
#6. A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I think so. Yes. No matter what.
Cormac McCarthy
#7. Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
John McCarthy
#8. My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.
John McCarthy
#9. If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
John McCarthy
#10. Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
John McCarthy
#11. Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.
Robert Dallek
#12. Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.
John McCarthy
#13. An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
John McCarthy
#15. An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
John McCarthy
#16. A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.
John McCarthy
#17. Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
John McCarthy
#18. Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
John McCarthy
#19. When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
John McCarthy
#20. If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.
John McCarthy
#21. The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
John McCarthy
#22. 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.
John McCarthy
#23. My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.
John McCarthy
#24. 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.
John McCarthy
#26. Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
John McCarthy
#27. Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
John McCarthy
#28. Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
John McCarthy
#29. In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy
#30. Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
John McCarthy
#31. Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
John McCarthy
#32. John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him.
Cormac McCarthy
#33. There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
John McCarthy
#34. Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
John McCarthy
#35. Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
John McCarthy
#36. John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
Michael Imperioli
#37. His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
John McCarthy
#39. As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.
John Anderson
#40. Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
John McCarthy
#41. The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
John McCarthy
#42. An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.
John McCarthy
#43. Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.
John McCarthy
#44. If I dont go will you go anyways?
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.
Cormac McCarthy
#45. Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.
John Lahr
#46. With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.
John McCarthy
#47. Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Kitty Kelley
#48. Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.
John Wayne
#49. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy
#50. John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
Howard Dean
#51. Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite.
Cormac McCarthy
#52. Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
John McCarthy
#53. We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
John McCarthy
#54. Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
John McCarthy
#55. Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.
John McCarthy
#56. When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
John McCarthy
#57. Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.
John McCarthy
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