Alexander Waugh Quotes

• Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

  Alexander Waugh

  Stupidity, Form, Seriousness

  Alexander Waugh (2008). “Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family”, p.453, Anchor

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• In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?

  Alexander Waugh

  Numbers, Perfect, Way

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• God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

  Alexander Waugh

  Computer, Conflict, Danger

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• In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?

  Alexander Waugh

  Media, Two, America

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