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 Computers
When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital. P. J. O'Rourke Medical
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do. P. J. O'Rourke Car
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics. P. J. O'Rourke Humor
Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do. P. J. O'Rourke Chance
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. P. J. O'Rourke Politics
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O'Rourke Politics
The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs. P. J. O'Rourke Politics
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. P. J. O'Rourke Peace
People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' P. J. O'Rourke Politics
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless. P. J. O'Rourke Mom
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. P. J. O'Rourke Politics
I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works. P. J. O'Rourke Mom
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourke Power
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 Morning
The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.' P. J. O'Rourke Space
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains. P. J. O'Rourke Dad
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. P. J. O'Rourke Marriage