“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said”
C.S. Lewis
“When arguing with a stone an egg is always wrong”
African Proverb
“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”
Stephen R. Covey
“when arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong”
“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”
Evelyn Waugh
“Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.”
William Goldman