“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.” WorldGivingWholeDreamTruthLyingHellProveMadLawyerDrunkSoberIrrelevantWorld HistoryPipePipe Dreams Book:Plays: Source: Plays:
“I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.” WholeValuesGroupsSettingSettingsLabelsEnterpriseIrrelevant Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded) Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
“Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.” NeedsWholeMusicianMusic IsUnderstoodUselessIrrelevantEpoch Author:Pierre Boulez
“I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.” ShouldBelieveHumansDoeHas BeensWholeUseLanguageI BelieveCausesResultsBrainSolutionsToolsShould HaveDetailsComplexityInteractionUnpredictableIrrelevantShould Have BeenProgrammersPreventingHuman BrainInstillOverload Author:Erik Naggum