Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? T...hat Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell,... The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This incredible work is an almost inexhaustible mine of bad writing, faulty generalizing, childish pussyfooting, ludicrous posturi...ng, and naïve stupidity. To find a match for it one must try to imagine a biography of the Duke of Wellington by his barber.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Someone hangs in the sky over there from a piece of rope,... hammering and fitting God's belly-scratcher, working his way up along the spire until there's nothing left to nail on--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering ... is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with ...two after a fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »