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
funny military army
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
funny sarcastic kind-deeds
Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
inspirational funny work
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
funny media television
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most pretentious, is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.
funny communication humor
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
funny cute-love sarcastic
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
best brush industrial mouth teeth
Brush your teeth with the best toothpaste,Then rinse your mouth with industrial waste".
fellow proud soldier
It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier
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
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.