“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say some...” — Tom Lehrer Quote

“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.”

“I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.”

“I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.”

“Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.”

“I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.”

“I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.”

“The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right”

“Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'”

“Are humans not consciousness floating in-between the mind with nothing above or below, other than a body with a gravitational pull that spins with-in an earth on an axis with nothing above or below? Is the meaning not just a form of being within this magnificent process?”

“Chaos isn’t a lack of order; it’s a process where sensitive dependencies guide systems toward optimized configurations - Tom Golway”

“Most ideas are waking dreams that fade to an emotional residue.”

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”