Alexander Waugh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity
-- Alexander Waugh

#Stupidity #Form #Seriousness
In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?
-- Alexander Waugh

#Media #Two #America
God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.
-- Alexander Waugh

#Computer #Conflict #Danger
In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?
-- Alexander Waugh

#Numbers #Perfect #Way

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.
I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
There is no vaccine against stupidity.
Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
I understand the seriousness of concussions.
Seriousness is a disease of the ego

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