P. J. O’Rourke best Computers Quotes – “Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Communication Quotes – “I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Famous Quotes – “A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Family Quotes – “Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his need’ is the family’s practice as well as its theory. Even with today’s scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Failure Quotes – “The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Failure Quotes – “The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Failure Quotes – “Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Experience Quotes – “I think it’s been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Environmental Quotes – “There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change – or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is – certainly is one of them. But it’s low on my list.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Education Quotes – “Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are – these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Design Quotes – “The great majority of Baghdad is a slum – a lot of it’s new, but it’s still slum. It’s usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There’s street after street after street of that stuff.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Death Quotes – “Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Death Quotes – “Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Death Quotes – “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
P. J. O’Rourke best Christmas Quotes – “Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.”