Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. – Bill James
Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we dont talk about it intelligently. – Bill James
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports. – Bill James
I would never encourage my children to be athletes – first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate. – Bill James
Dr. Richard Bentley (1662-1742)… is said one day, on finding his son reading a novel, to have remarked—’Why read a book that you cannot quote?’— a saying which affords an amusing illustration of the nature and object of his literary studies. – Cyclopædia of English Literature edited by Robert Chambers, 1844