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Your job is draining the swamp - not fighting alligators.

For a gentleman, ten years is not too long to wait for revenge.

I am he, who is not afraid to look in the corners.

It is not your part to finish the task.  Neither are you free to
desist from it.

Ask him about Bruce Franklin's theory of the revolutionary role
of the lumpenproletariat.
Like Marcuse?
No, it's practical.  People were killed. - David Chudnovsky

He who says he will die for a cause will probably lie for it and
may kill for it. - jmc

No-one has yet built a monument so high that a bird can't fly
over it and shit on it. - jmc

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. - jmc

When the policeman quits, each must provide for his own defense. - jmc 1975
Nuclear proliferation has become more likely.

Governor Brown says nuclear power is the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.
The difference is that if he prevails, the boat people will be
Americans. - jmc

As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture. - jmc

To keep the wilderness truly wild, all maps and publications should
be suppressed - no more Sierra Club books and calendars. - jmc

When architects get prizes, the people suffer. - jmc

Self-righteousness is more dangerous than smoking. - jmc 1983 March

During the first three millenia, the Earthmen complained a lot. - jmc
During the second millenium, the Earthmen complained a lot. - jmc

Where there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found. - jmc 1983 March

Young tyrants are more genocidal than old tyrants. - jmc 1983 April
with the exception of Khomeini

3. You say you couldn't live if you thought the world had no purpose.
You're saying that you can't form purposes of your own - that you need
someone to tell you what to do.  The average child has more gumption than
that. - jmc before 1983

4. If everyone were to live for others all the time, life would be like a
procession of ants following each other around in a circle.
- jmc before 1983

5. He's a man of principle.  He'd cut his mother's throat for a principle.
- jmc before 1983

As Marx should have said, the principle of communism is
From each according to what he can't get out of doing.
To each according to whom he knows. - jmc dec 1983

It is deplorable that many people think that the best way to improve
the world is to forbid something.  However, they're morally more
advanced than the people who think the best way to improve the world
is to kill somebody. jmc, 1984 March

If Jesus were here today, he'd be a real revolutionary.  Do you mean
there'd be twice as many boat people? jmc, 1984 Aug.

That's not a book; it's a core dump. jmc 1984 aug, after Paul Heckel.

You say the only alternative to nuclear war is world government.
There is only one possibility worse than nuclear war for the
survival of modern civilization, and that is world government.  
Civilization might recover from the damage of a nuclear war,
but judging by past static empires, it might never recover
from world government.
As it is present governments are only prevented from becoming
dominated by crazy ideas that will suppress all opposition
by the existence of other governments.  The only way a people
can be sure that their government is substandard is that it does
worse than those of other countries.

It's possible to program a computer in English.  It's also possible
to make an airplane controlled by reins and spurs. - jmc 196x

Mankind will probably survive even if it doesn't take my advice. - jmc

Equality of the sexes is more important than equality of the genders. - jmc
1985

The reason why a professor does something has even less connection
with why he says he does it than with most people - jmc 1985

A standard is a commodity - not a dictatorship - Zemanek?

It's a poor cause for which no-one will scuttle a ship or cut a throat. - jmc 1985

In this paper masculine pronouns also embrace not only the feminine but
also the robotic. - jmc 1985

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. - jmc 1985

The initials NMR now stand for ``non-monotonic reasoning''.  Some of you
may have heard these initials before in another connection, but now
that the medical profession has given in to superstition and abandoned
them, we computer scientists are happy to put these honorable initials
to another use and hope they will be just as fortunate in scientific
advance and practical utility as they were in their older meaning. - jmc 1985

If you buy the Brooklyn Bridge, be sure and get a receipt. - jmc 1985

As T. J. Sr. said to T. J. Jr., "remember my boy, every minute a future
valued customer is born and two to meet his requirements". - jmc 1985

When he talks about "firing that loony" he reminds me of a robin
attacking its image in a hubcap. - jmc 1985

Whenever I hear a dog barking or howling for a long time my reaction
is one of relief --- it's not my dog making all that racket and
inciting the neighbors to call the police. - jmc 1985

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. - jmc 1985

The last ten percent of any reform is the most difficult to achieve.
Moreover, it is often harmful. - jmc 1985

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political principle, 5-0 is not surprising.
- jmc 1982?

Note to Douglas Hofstadter and Raymond Smullyan:
 self reference can be as dangerous as smoking.
- jmc 1985.

There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
Yes, even if it's a bad idea. - jmc

The squabbles among linguists remind me of a saying of my mother-in-law,
a retired farmer's wife.  "When the chickens start cannibalizing one
another, the only thing to do is to butcher the lot or sell them
to someone else and start over".

Praising the Sandinistas while criticizing the Soviets is like
loving kittens and hating cats.  Actually it's not a nice kitty either.
 jmc 1986

Personal dishonesty is not needed to produce a dishonest business plan or
research proposal.  Wishful thinking suffices. - jmc 1986

Soccer riots kill at most tens.  Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes
kill millions.  jmc 1986

You have to transcend your class interests.  Since you belong to the class
from which bureaucracies are formed, you naturally favor making people
deal with bureaucracies.
People prefer dealing with machinery to dealing with bureaucracies. jmc 1986

Your denial of the importance of objectivity amounts to a statement
of your intention to lie to us.  Therefore, no-one should believe
anything you say. jmc 1986

The peace advocates are more interested in beating the conservatives than
in reaching agreement with the Soviets. - jmc 1987

Your statements amount to saying that if AI is possible, it should be
easy.  Why is that? - jmc 1987

Here's a way to tell scientific intelligence from legal intelligence.
Both may start from the idea that something cannot be done and think
up arguments to explain why.  However, it is possible that the scientist
may discover a flaw in the argument that leads him to change his mind
and discover a way to do it.  He will be pleased.  The legal thinker
will merely try to patch the flaw in the argument, because once he
has chosen a side, all his intelligence is devoted to finding arguments
for that side. - jmc 1987

Malthus was right.  It's hard to see how the solar system could support
much more than 10↑28 people or the universe more than 10↑50. - jmc 1987

He has a tragic vision of life - as in a cigarette ad.

Lawyers are replacing rats in psychological experiments.

1. They are more numerous.

2. You don't get so attached to them.

3. There are some things you just can't get a rat to do.

also newspapermen and tv personalities
Dan Dennett 1987.
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