One of my all time favorite quotes.

Really!? Why? Do you like the metre? (Dah da da dah da da, dah dah da da da da.)

Or perhaps its a schoolboy puerility regarding the eleventh word?

Because you obviously never looked into who Bertrand Russell was: At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense"

You might as well cite: Miss Piggy!

I like the quote because I observe a lot of exactly that in the real world... and because of the eleventh word.

It honestly doesn't much matter who said it in this case (remember, "examine what is said, not who speaks"), I just prefer to properly attribute a quote when possible. I don't think you should give Russell too hard a time just because he flip-flopped a lot, that's better than someone that digs in their heels and closes their mind to any opinion change. Russell spent a lot of time thinking about things, was willing to change his mind based upon new observations, constantly "questioned authority", and didn't much care about being popular. In fact, doesn't that sound a lot like someone you know? :-)

And hey, Miss Piggy has some good quotes too that hit home with me personally... "Smart cooks realize that the easiest cookbook to use is the Yellow Pages and the handiest appliance in the kitchen is the telephone."

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Brilliant retort. Especially the Miss Piggy quote :)

(I have a particular bee in my bonnet about argumentum ad verecundiam at the moment -- long story -- so don't take my antipathy toward Russell to heart. He won't! I'll be his best friend tomorrow :) )

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Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". The enemy of (IT) success is complexity.

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. Suck that fhit

He! But it isn't so bad:

Dah da da dah da da, dah dah da da da da 𝄀 ♩♫ ♩♫ 𝄀 ♩ ♩ ♫ ♫ 𝄀 ta ta di ta ta di 𝄀 ta ta 𝄀 ta di ta di 𝄀

See also & Da, da, da.

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