Balopticon Books Quotes & Sayings

Until the last day of the war, MacArthur and his staff continued to
plan for Olympic [the invasion of the Japanese home islands]. Yet nobody, with the possible exception of the general, wanted to launch the operation. A British infantryman, gazing at bloated corpses on a
Burman battlefield, vented the anger and frustration common to almost
every Allied soldier in those days, about the enemy's rejection of
reason: Ye stupid sods! Ye stupid Japanni sods! Look at the fookin' state of ye! Ye wadn't listen
and yer all fookin' dead! Tojo's way! Ye dumb bastards! Ye coulda bin suppin' chah an' screwin' geeshas in yer fookin' lal paper 'ooses
an' look at ye! Ah doan't knaw! — Max Hastings

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science. — Neil Gershenfeld

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal. — Rob Portman

I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood. — Koki Hirota

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them. — Kevin Spacey

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. — Jesse Helms

Politics is compromise. — Paddy Ashdown

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow ... — Victoria Woodhull

I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong. — Erin Morgenstern

Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us ...
Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed ...
When we die,
No-one will know it's happened — Kazuya Minekura