Thoughts of an old curmudgeon
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought.” — Steve Jobs
“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
– Tom Stoppard
“One difference between politics and football is that if you don’t know anything about football and keep yelling nonsensically at the people who do, someone will come along and politely ask you to leave the party. If you know nothing about politics but shout loudly enough, sometimes they give you your own TV show or elect you to something. It is one of the risks you take. ” – Alexandra Petri
“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”
– Vince Lombardi
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams
“After all, what is your hosts’ purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.”
– P. J. O’Rourke
“Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.”
– James McNeill Whistler
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
– Albert Einstein
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
“Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.”
– Mike Royko
