Jack Vance on Friendship
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Jack Vance, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
This page displays 9 quotations attributed to Jack Vance and filed under "friendship" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Jack Vance, entry #43463: "“Legality is the mathematics of social conduct,” said Magnus Ridolph. “It is equally as cogent as the mathematics of probability."
Attributed to Jack Vance, entry #161866: "I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies."
9 Quotes by Jack Vance on Friendship
"“Legality is the mathematics of social conduct,” said Magnus Ridolph. “It is equally as cogent as the mathematics of probability."
"I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies."
"I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate."
"He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness."
"Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies."
"What good is notoriety if your friends are unable to profit from it?"
"There can be no doubt as to the facts as I have stated them. Orthodoxy derives from this axiomatic foundation, and the two systems are mutually reinforcing: hence each is doubly validated."
"A man without friends is a tree without leaves."
"“Intelligence” demands the most strict of definitions, since the word is easily and often abused. Intelligence rates the quality of Gaean man’s competence at altering environment to suit his convenience, or, more generally, the solution of problems. The corollaries to the idea are several. Among them: In the absence of problems, intelligence cannot be measured. A creature with a large, complicated brain is not necessarily intelligent. Raw abstract intelligence is a meaningless concept."