When I see a congressman giving his opinion on something, I always wonder if
it represents his *real* opinion or if it represents an opinion that he's
designed in order to be elected. It seems to be a central problem for
politicians. So I often wonder: what is the relation of integrity to working
in the government?
-- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988),
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
it represents his *real* opinion or if it represents an opinion that he's
designed in order to be elected. It seems to be a central problem for
politicians. So I often wonder: what is the relation of integrity to working
in the government?
-- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988),
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
Related:
- If a guy tells me the probability of failure is
1 in 10E5,
I know he's full of crap. -- Richard Phillips Feynman... - When I left the meeting, I had the definite impression that I had found the
same game as with the seals:
management reducing criteria and accepting more and... - My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist,
but he was a salesman. I remember asking him the question... - The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with,
is to describe the evidence very carefully without... - But then a new problem came up: the Jupiter probe, Galileo,
was going to use a power supply that runs on heat... - What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his
having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
A. Robert... - In fact, I think Linus's [= Linus Torvalds'] cleverest and most consequential
hack was not the construction of the Linux kernel itself,
but rather his invention of the Linux development model... - Quote #296
[about the usenet as elephant horde metaphor]
It was Gene Spafford.
I have it (he posted it himself) as: In closing,... - Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,
he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares...
From the same category:
- Haven't you any sense of humor?
-- One of the world's worst questions
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Jane... - Constant tinkering buggers
things up... - I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country
what it once was.
an arctic wilderness. -- Steve... - The oldest of all philosophies, that of Evolution, was bound hand and
foot and cast into utter darkness during the millennium of theological
scholasticism.
But Darwin poured new lifeblood into the... - We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Tombstone epitaph of two...
