Todays Dead List 08/06/2008

The Dead List August 6, 2008

“He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”

• Ben Jonson
  (06/11/1572 – 08/06/1637)
  English writer

“The first casualty of war is truth.”

• Hiram Johnson
  (09/02/1866 – 08/06/1945)
  US Governor, Senator (CA) (Note: Johnson died of old age the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima)
  
  “You can’t go around the theatres handing out cards saying, ‘It isn’t my fault’. You go on to the next one.”
  
  • Preston Sturges
    (08/29/1898 – 08/06/1959)
    US writer

  “Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.”

  
  
  • Pope Paul VI
    (09/26/1897 – 08/06/1978)
    Italian religious leader

  “Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.”

  
  
  • Harry Reasoner
    (04/17/1926 – 08/06/1991)
    US telejournalist

  “The bastardized offspring of Italian baroque grafted onto the ostentatious whims of a Mughal despot.”

  
  
  • Andre Weil
    (05/06/1906 – 08/06/1998)
    French mathematician, on the Taj Mahal

  “Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.”

  
  
  • Larry Adler
    (02/10/1914 – 08/06/2001)
    US harmonica player

  “It’s good to write programs occasionally, as long as you don’t run them.”

  
  
  • Edsger W. Dijkstra
    (05/11/1930 – 08/06/2002)
    Dutch computer scientist