Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
—Anonymous
I didn’t say I didn’t say it. I said I didn’t say I said it.
I want to make that very clear.
—George Romney
Truth isn't truth.
—Rudy Giuliani
Look, ‘alternative facts’ are not facts. They’re falsehoods.
—Chuck Todd responding to Kellyanne Conway
Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
—Richard Nixon
It’s all about following the recipe.
And making the appropriate substitutions.
—Dawn Perlner
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.
—Ronald Harry Coase
Of course, society may not be ready for children en masse seeking illusory relationships with intelligent devices—even if they are just mimicking their parents.
—Natasha Singer, NYTimes
Humans are incapable of storing high-quality cryptographic keys and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute the environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed, but they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our systems around their limitations.
—Radia Perlman