Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehreris an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. He is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and '60s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth9 April 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
food
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
francisco kids san
San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.
awarded became henry nobel obsolete peace
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
high loved
I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.
whom
I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.
against billion clown joke money program proudest record sending spending waste year
One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money.
bush george sort tempted
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.
fit mathematics music notes satisfying
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your .
american-musician communication
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
life
Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
american-musician careful deeds good
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
answer rather understand understanding
In the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you are doing rather than to get the right answer
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All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan,And the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!