John McCarthy

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.