Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 30, 2022
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Artist Descending a Staircase"  
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)  
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )  
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