#thirty

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ↗

— John Cage

#boring #discovers #eight #eventually #four

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#argued #cost #economists #high #inconvenience

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#afternoon #day #next #ourselves #thirty

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#amount #coincides #content #entire #exactly

Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today. ↗

— Vince Gill

#achieved #ago #become #been #being

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#flag #hoped #liberty #men #moneyed

And we were in our thirties. Well into the Age of Boredom, when nothing is new. Now, I’m not being self-pitying; it’s simply true. Newness, or whatever you want to call it, becomes a very scarce commodity after thirty. I think that’s unfair. If I were in charge of the human life span, I’d make sure to budget newness much more selectively, to ration it out. As it is now, it’s almost used up in the first three years of life. By then you’ve seen for the first time, tasted for the first time, held something for the first time. Learned to walk, talk, go to the bathroom. What have you got to look forward to that can compare with that? Sure, there’s school. Making friends. Falling in love. Learning to drive. Sex. Learning to trade. That has to carry you for the next twenty-five years. But after that? What’s the new excitement? Mastering your home computer? Figuring out how to work CompuServe? “Now, if it were up to me, I’d parcel out. So that, say, at thirty-five we just learned how to go on the potty. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment! They’d have office parties. "Did you hear? The vice president in charge of overseas development just went a whole week without his diaper. We’re buying him a gift." It’d be beautiful. ↗

— Phoef Sutton

#growing-old #newness #novelty #thirty-years-old #age

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change. ↗

— Connie Mack

#change #doubled #entertainment #faith #forms

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. ↗

— Alistair Maclean

#darned #days #each #finished #flat

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#before #forty #forty years #i #things