Quotes About Paradox

The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.

The most brightly colored birds sing the worst; the same goes for people.

El primer libro que habría que prohibir en el mundo sería un catálogo de libros prohibidos.

Si un ángel nos hablara de su filosofía, creo que algunas frases muy bien podrían sonar como "2 por 2 son 13".

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

The paradox of artificial intelligence is that any system simple enough to be understandable is not complicated enough to behave intelligently, and any system complicated enough to behave intelligently is not simple enough to understand. The path to artificial intelligence, suggested Turing, is to construct a machine with the curiosity of a child, and let intelligence evolve.

Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it must be another look at infinity, it must be another way of seeing the paradox of existence.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?

A mere verbal formula often distinguishes a truism from a paradox. "It is the duty of society to protect the weak;" but protection cannot be efficient without the power of control; therefore, "It is the duty of society to enslave the weak." And it is a duty which no organized and civilized society ever failed to perform. Parents, husbands, guardians, teachers, committees, etc., are but masters under another name, whose duty it is to protect the weak, and whose right it is to control them.

common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie

They call the undead inhuman, not realizing the irony: only humans are capable of inhumanity.