Quotes by Clever For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie. Bertolt Brecht smart clever lying Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over. Bertrand Meyer party clever running A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Bertrand Russell smart stupid clever Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them. Bertrand Russell stupid clever men Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Bertrand Russell stupid clever men Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people. Bertrand Russell clever animal men not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever. Bess Streeter Aldrich cleverness clever Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be. Bill Bryson cities clever believe George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words. Bill Cosby drawing clever winter There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. Bill Watterson clever time funny In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way. Billie Piper doctors clever years Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life. Billy Collins reading clever talking I’m actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white. Billy Connolly smart clever funny I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are. Billy Joel clever want love Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Billy Wilder subtlety obvious clever Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code. Bjarne Stroustrup clever dirty thinking Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be. Blaise Pascal imagination clever men The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion. Bob Dole white clever house They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now. Bob Monkhouse smart clever funny In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea. Bob Odenkirk sticks clever ideas «23456789101112»
