I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.

Believing is essential when changing any behavior

After what she's been through, there really should be crime scene tape around her heart.

The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.