"Never take a trend out a window."
His longtime friend and advisor on statistics in social science William Fielding Ogburn, quoted by Robert Ardrey in The Territorial Imperative
In my latest National Post column I say the breathtaking pace at which artificial intelligence is developing is more important than politics... and even scarier.
"A good leader never walks by a mistake."
An “oft-repeated maxim” of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, according to Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, Stormin’ Norman
"I am put in mind of a little book, titled Manners, that my own grandmother gave me as a child…. printed in 1912…. which I have sadly misplaced… good for a laugh when I was a teenager…. It was a noble little book, as I came to see later…. Implicit within every statement in the book was a conception of civilization, an aspiration to raise ourselves up. Not simply to ‘get ahead,’ but to rise out of the slovenly condition of being barbaric."
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen April 9, 2002 [reflecting on Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]
"They are good people in the worst sense of the word."
Mark Twain on the religious right of his day, quoted by Jay Nordlinger in National Review April 19, 1999 [actually quoting Garrison Keillor quoting Twain].