“Don't remember what you can infer”
Harry Tennant
“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)”
John Heywood
“"That buzzing-noise means something. If there's a buzzing noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee. .... And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey..... And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.”
Winnie the Pooh
“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The government said Gates personifies everything wrong with the company, ... I infer from that if Gates has a smaller role in the company and Ballmer has a bigger role, that is a somewhat more suitable environment for achieving an agreement.”
William Kovacic
“to the inferences to be drawn from the uncontested fact that ... before this December 17th phone call, the president and Ms. Lewinsky had had discussions about what she should say if asked about her visits to the Oval Office.”
David Kendall
