Aaronson Quotes & Sayings

If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves. — Scott Aaronson

He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry. — P.G. Wodehouse

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true. — Judy Biggert

Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first
lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the
crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash
equilibrium. — Scott Aaronson

The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand. — Rei Kawakubo

The compulsion to include everything, leaving nothing out, does not prove that one has unlimited information; it proves that one lacks discrimination. — Sharon Aaronson

You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with. — Lora Leigh

If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in "creative leaps," no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett. — Scott Aaronson

In Sicily it doesn't matter whether things are done well or done badly; the sin which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of 'doing' at all. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth — Jim Harrison

It's easy t write a history. All the eyewitnesses are dead. - Ljupka Cvrtanova — Ljupka Cvetanova

Tin-Tin in your rattle skin
Dumbed and worn down -
Flushed pink-salmon suffering. — Abigail George

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence. — Martin Seligman

I've been going insane reading my students' papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles."
~ Ithana Aaronson — Jeanne Birdsall

Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself. — Charles Spurgeon