Quotes About Herbert

Ultimately, all science is correlation. No matter how effectively it may use one variable to describe another, its equations will always ultimately rest upon the surface of a black box. (Saint Herbert might have put it most succinctly when he observed that all proofs inevitably reduce to propositions that have no proof.)

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Quain solía argumentar que los lectores eran una especie ya extinta. 'No hay europeo' (razonaba) 'que no sea un escritor, en potencia o en acto.' Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain

I was born in Florida. My first political campaign was as a field director for George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988.

supporting the Republican, Herbert Hoover.

one Republican wrote, the people "think that God tried his best when he made Mr Lincoln

Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.

It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me." The

He's awake and listening to us," said the old woman. "Sly little rascal." She chuckled. "But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach…well….

The creature all men on Arrakis fear, you treat it like a riding animal.

sweet sharings upon which arose something of painful beauty.

So there was a species of logic to all of this but it kicked the performers out of the nest into chaos.

There are some forms of insanity which, driven to an ultimate expression, can become the new models of sanity. — BuSab Manual

So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.' That seemed to satisfy her.

Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow." "You malign him." "Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now.

the face was predatory: thin, full of sharp angles and panes.

There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist.

Love is swift of foot;/Love's a man of war.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

Jesus is his name. There's no point in pretending that his name is Herbert.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.