language

"An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it."

"You can't say 'I'll sell Silva and buy a similar player'. There are no similar players around, only worse ones."

"The two transports had sneaked up from the south in the first graying flush of dawn, their cumbersome mass cutting smoothly through the water whose still greater mass bore them silently, themselves s …"

"Essay on Niemholler's Statement"

"George Washington's Silent Lack of Piety" at Positive Atheism"

"When a thing gets very, very small, you can't tell the difference between a solid and a liquid."

"They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple."

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic buildin…"

": I would say that in the long run probably Communist China is likely to be in more of an expansionist phase than Soviet Russia...In their tactics, the Chinese Communists are probably the greater mena…"

"What's to gain by silence?"

"The 'name' of a resource indicates what we seek, an 'address' indicates where it is, and a 'route' tells us how to get there."

"I’m not saying we’re in a police state, but it sure looks like it when you evaluate the system of pretrial release."

"According to ... an implemented , has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action. ...ny system that exhibits general intelligence will ...be a physical symbol system. ...ny phys…"

"… I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain."

"Overall, the universe's apostrophe store stays in balance. It seems our linguistic world was intelligently designed -- for every gratuitous apostrophe there's an instance where it's omitted."

"China is telling you that that there is no safe place."

"Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either."

"Ben Weatherstaff says he is so conceited he would rather have stones thrown at him than not be noticed."

"Colonel Sidney's Speech, Delivered to the sheriff on the scaffold"

"A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence."