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Logic Quotes

Drama starts where logic ends.

– Ram Charan

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

– Stephen Cole Kleene

I mean, I’ve had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I’ve never even thought about, and they’re right.

– Todd Barry

The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence.

– Thomas Mallon

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

– Stephen Gardiner

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

– Steven Bochco

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

– Stendhal

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

– Stephen Cole Kleene

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

– Thomas Huxley

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

– Theodor Adorno

It’s hard to find logic in things sometimes. That’s why I can’t analyze things too much, because it often doesn’t make much sense.

– Tim Burton

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

– Tim Minear

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you’re not going to get very far. You simply won’t.

– Sidney Poitier

England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.

– Wole Soyinka

Here at Wisconsin we didn’t get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the ’60s.

– Stephen Cole Kleene

What’s immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

– Susan George

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

– Wang Leehom

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

– Yanni

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins – its own and everybody else’s. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

– Timothy Noah

What’s so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.

– Spalding Gray

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

– Tadao Ando

Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

– Yanis Varoufakis

Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

– Samantha Harvey

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 – 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

– Tony Visconti

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

– Ted Chiang

I did my first interview in 1995 and was asked about my private life. I said, ‘Why would I tell you? I don’t see the logic in anyone knowing that about me. For whose sake? Nobody wins.’

– Sidse Babett Knudsen

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

– Susan Sontag

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

– Stephen Cole Kleene

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

– Sanford I. Weill

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