McCarthy Quotes
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When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
Joseph McCarthy— Ray Bradbury, in Nation (2 May 1953), and quoted in "About Fahrenheit 451 : Historical Influences for Fahrenheit 451"
Twenty-one years between first and second films is longer than any director should have to wait. The case of Polonsky is one of the most dismal hangovers from the McCarthy period.
abraham polonsky— David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-375-41128-3
Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans.
— "One Enchanted Evening", Time Magazine (Aug. 9, 1954)
... name association was big, as were my presumed interests in vaudeville and politics. In St. Louis the Bow tie was characterized as "very Charlie McCarthy", while in Chicago a young man defined it as "the pierced eyebrow of the Republican party".
david sedaris— On stereotypes of bowtie wearers, Sedaris, David (2008). "Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?". When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0316143472.
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.
douglas hofstadter— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.
douglas hofstadter— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular... Fortunately for computer science the supply of curly braces and angle brackets remains high.
— Iry James, A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
